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Battle Scene

model ca. 1540 (cast 16th or 17th century)
Not on view
This plaquette depicting a battle scene exists in other versions in the Bode Museum, Berlin (a rectangular work), the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Louvre, Paris. Some bear the monogram IO(hannus) B(ernardi) F(ecit). The composition may have derived from an engraved crystal plaquette that Giovanni Bernardi made for Cardinal Alessandro Farnese II. This aftercast from the sixteenth or seventeenth century has some loss of detail.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Battle Scene
  • Artist: Giovanni Bernardi da Castel Bolognese (Italian, Castel Bolognese 1494–1553 Faenza) , Rome
  • Date: model ca. 1540 (cast 16th or 17th century)
  • Medium: Copper alloy with light brown patina.
  • Dimensions: 5.5 x 6.6 cm, wt. 84.35 g.
  • Classification: Plaquettes
  • Credit Line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
  • Object Number: 1975.1.1339
  • Curatorial Department: The Robert Lehman Collection

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