Portrait medal of George the Bearded (duke of Saxony) (obverse); coat of arms (reverse)
Peter Flötner
1537
Medium
Silver
Dimensions
Diameter: 1 11/16 in., 43.39g (4.3 cm)
Classification
Medals
Department
Robert Lehman Collection
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number
1975.1.1322
Tags
PortraitsCoat of ArmsMen
About the Artist
Peter Flötner · 1485–1546
Peter Flötner (c. 1485–1546) was a German sculptor, ornament designer, and medalist whose work played a central role in the transmission of Italian Renaissance decorative vocabulary into the German-speaking lands. Though his exact origins remain uncertain — he may have trained in Augsburg before settling permanently in Nuremberg around 1522 — his formation evidently included exposure to Italian Re...