Portrait medal of Isotta degli Atti (obverse); An Elephant (reverse)
model 1446 or later (possibly cast 16th century)
Medium
Bronze (copper alloy with a brown patina under a worn layer of dark brown wax)
Dimensions
Diam. 8.5 cm, wt. 275.79 g.
Classification
Medals
Department
Robert Lehman Collection
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number
1975.1.1284
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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...