Medal: Girolamo Savorgnan or Savorniano

model before 1514 (cast 19th century)
Not on view
This is one of eight medals ascribed to the medallist Fra Antonio da Brescia, which depictws sitters from Padua, Treviso, Verona, and Venice. A portrait of Girolamo Savorgnan or Savorniano (1466–1529), defender of the city of Osopo for Venice against Emperor Maximilian I in 1513–14, decorates the obverse. On the reverse is a seated man holding a model of the city Osopo in his hand and being crowned by Victory. This specimen is a nineteenth-century aftercast.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Medal: Girolamo Savorgnan or Savorniano
  • Artist: Fra Antonio da Brescia (active ca. 1485–1525)
  • Date: model before 1514 (cast 19th century)
  • Culture: Italian, Venice
  • Medium: Bronze
  • Dimensions: Diam. 4.8 cm, wt. 47.72 g.
  • Classification: Medals
  • Credit Line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
  • Object Number: 1975.1.1262
  • Curatorial Department: The Robert Lehman Collection

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