1903.12: Pisanello (1395-1455)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1903.12

People

After Georges Liard Sr., French (active 1895-1913)
After Pisanello (Antonio Pisano), Italian (Pisa, Italy c. 1395 - c. 1455 Rome ?, Italy)

Title

Pisanello (1395-1455)

Classification

Medals and Medallions

Work Type

medal

Date

c. 1902

Places

Creation Place: Europe, France, Paris

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/231393

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Bronze

Technique

Cast

Dimensions

80.09 g, 13.97 cm (5 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: Pisanus Pictor [=Pisano the Painter]; back [from Curtis catalogue c. 1903]: Within a crown, the letters F S K I P F T, arranged in two lines. Dr. Fröhner interprets them as the initial letters of the cardinal virtues: Fides, Spes, Karitas, Justicia, Prudentia, Fortitudo, Temperantia [=faith, hope, charity, justice, prudence, fortitude, temperance].

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Georges Liard, Sr., Paris, France, sold; to Horatio Greenough Curtis, Boston, Massachusetts, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1903.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Horatio G. Curtis

Accession Year

1903

Object Number

1903.12

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Fogg Art Museum, Charles Moore, and Horatio Greenough Curtis, Catalogue of Bronze Reproductions of Italian and French Medals of the Renaissance, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, c. 1903), p. 8

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