Portrait_medal_of_Cecilia_Gonzaga_(obverse);_Innocence_and_a_Unicorn_in_a_Moonlit_Landscape_(reverse)_MET_DP-1241-015_(cropped).jpg

Summary

Artist



Alternative names	Il Pisanello, Antonio Pisanello, Antonio di Puccio Pisano Pisanello, Birth name: Antonio di Puccio Pisano
Description	Italian architect, painter, designer and medal engraver
Date of birth/death	before 1395 date QS:P,+1395-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1395-00-00T00:00:00Z/9	circa 1455 date QS:P,+1455-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Location of birth/death	Pisa or Verona	Rome (?)
Work location	Venice (1415-1422), Verona (1422, 1426), Mantua , Rome (1431-1432), Verona (1432-1438), Milan (1439-1441), Ferrara (1441-1445), Verona (1445), Ferrara (1445-1448), Naples (1448)
Authority file	: Q311082 VIAF : 106964015 ISNI : 0000000121464355 ULAN : 500027080 LCCN : n85378506 NLA : 36447177 WorldCat

Title

Portrait medal of Cecilia Gonzaga (obverse); Innocence and a Unicorn in a Moonlit Landscape (reverse)

Object type

Description

Date

model 1447 (old aftercast)

Medium

Bronze (copper alloy with warm brown patina under a worn layer of black wax)

Dimensions

Diam. 8.4 cm, wt. 142.55 g.

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

	Native name	Metropolitan Museum of Art
	Location	Manhattan , New York City , United States of America
	Coordinates	40° 46′ 46″ N, 73° 57′ 48″ W
	Established	1870
	Website	www.metmuseum.org
	Authority file	: Q160236 VIAF : 126238294 ISNI : 0000000419368761 ULAN : 500125157 LCCN : n79129629 NLA : 36247933 WorldCat

Current location

Robert Lehman Collection

Accession number

1975.1.1307

Credit line

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

References

Source/Photographer

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