Medal: Bust of Pesello Peselli

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19th century · Bronze (Copper alloy with dark brown patina). · Robert Lehman Collection

Made in the nineteenth century, this medal was intended to look like a Renaissance example. The incorrect lettering and the “modern” facial type reveal its lack of authenticity. Pesello Peselli could be identified with the Florentine painter Francesco di Stefano (1422 – 1457), nicknamed Pesellino. He would have been called Pesello Peselli in the Tuscan manner. The painter was considered one of the champions of the nineteenth-century revival of taste for the Italian quattrocento, which is underscored by the nineteenth-century date of this medal.

Artist

Unknown

Date

19th century

Medium

Bronze (Copper alloy with dark brown patina).

Culture

Italian, Florence

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Credit line

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975 1975.1.1246