Hercules strangling the Nemean lion
Moderno (Galeazzo Mondella)
16th century
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
Overall: 3 × 2 1/4 in. (7.6 × 5.7 cm)
Classification
Medals and Plaquettes
Culture
Northern Italian
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1918
Accession Number
18.70.12
Tags
HerculesLions
About the Artist
Moderno (Galeazzo Mondella) · 1467–1528
Moderno, identified by scholars as the goldsmith and medallist Galeazzo Mondella (c. 1467–c. 1528), was among the most gifted Italian artists working in small-scale bronze and lead relief at the turn of the sixteenth century. The pseudonym Moderno, meaning simply "the modern one," signals both the esteem in which his contemporaries held his work and his own conscious alignment with the revival of ...