Marcus Croto (obverse); Man on Horseback (reverse)
Varrone Belferdino, Italian, active before 1445 - 1457
Medallist of the Roman Emperors
about 1475-1500
Bronze
Overall: 2 5/16 × 2 9/16 × 5/16 in. (5.9 × 6.5 × 0.8 cm)
Weight: 78 g (0.2 lb.)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Roger Arvid Anderson Collection - 250th Anniversary Gift, 1769-2019
2016.64.117
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Sculpture: Medal
Research Area
Sculpture
Not on view
Inscriptions
Obverse: [Male head, facing left] Inscribed, left edge: MARCUS; inscribed, right edge: CRO TO| Reverse: [Figure on horseback, facing left] Inscribed, top edge: VICTORIA E AGVSTE
Exhibition History
Antiquity in Rome from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment: Selections from Dartmouth's Collections, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 7-September 9, 2001.
Critical Faculties: Teaching with the Hood's Collections, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 15-March 13, 2005.
Publication History
T. Barton Thurber and Adrian W.B. Randolph, Antiquity in Rome from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment: Selections from Dartmouth's Collections, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2001, listed p.72.
Roger Arvid Anderson, The Roger Arvid Anderson Collection, Medals, Medallions, Plaquettes and Small Reliefs, Paintings, Sculpture, Works on Paper and Textiles, San Francisco: Roger Arvid Anderson (published privately), design by David L. Wilson, 2015, p. 46-47.
Provenance
Acquired by Roger Arvid Anderson, San Francisco, California, date unknown; lent to present collection, 2000; given to present collection, 2016.
Catalogue Raisonne
Kress, No. 205; Hill Corpus, No. 736
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