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Marco del Buono Giamberti (Florentine, 1402–1489) and Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso (Florentine, 1415/17–1465)
Cassone with The Conquest of Trebizond
Florence, 1460s
Tempera, gold, and silver on wood; distemper on inner lid, 39 1/2 x 77 x 32 7/8 in. (100.3 x 195.6 x 83.5 cm)
Inscribed at left, on city walls: GO[N]STANTINOPOLI (Constantinople); at left, within city walls: S FRA[N]CES/CO ([church of] San Francesco); upper left, within city walls: S. SOFIA. ([church of] Santa Sophia) DEILO.PER . . . ORI ([undeciphered]; at left center, on city walls: PERA. (Pera [formerly Galata]); on Bosporus: LOSTRETTO. (strait); at center, on city walls: LOSCUTARIO (Scutari [present-day Üsküdar]); farther back: CHASTEL NVOVO (new fortress [Rumeli Hisari]); at right, on city walls: TREBIZOND[A] (Trebizond [present-day Trabzon]); next to conqueror: TAN[B]VRLANA (Tamerlane)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1914 (14.39)
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