Medal: Bust of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta
Matteo de' Pasti
model 1447 (possibly cast 15th or 16th century)
Medium
Copper alloy with a warm brown patina.
Dimensions
Diam. 8.4 cm, wt. 294.21 g.
Classification
Medals
Department
Robert Lehman Collection
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number
1975.1.1283
Tags
MenPortraits
About the Artist
Matteo de' Pasti · 1420–1467
Matteo de' Pasti (c. 1420–c. 1467) was an Italian medalist, illuminator, and architect active in the mid-fifteenth century, best known as the principal artist of the brilliant humanist court of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta in Rimini. The precise details of his early training are not fully documented, but he was active as a miniature painter and illuminator before establishing himself as one of th...