Paul II (Pietro Barbo, 1417-1471), Pope 1464 [obverse]
1470
Sculptor
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Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (oblong): 8.21 × 4.46 cm (3 1/4 × 1 3/4 in.)
gross weight: 79.91 gr (0.176 lb.) -
Accession
1942.9.157.a
Associated Artworks
Paul II (Pietro Barbo, 1417-1471), Pope 1464 [reverse]
Anonymous Artist
1470
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Oscar Hainauer [d. 1894], Berlin; his wife, Julie Hainauer, Berlin; acquired 1906 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); by exchange 21 October 1920 to Joseph E. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; gift 1942 to NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1897
Bode, Wilhelm von, ed. Die Sammlung Oscar Hainauer / The Collection of Oscar Hainauer. [bound as one volume, English and German pages interleaved in one page sequence] Berlin, 1897 and London, 1906: 105, no. 273, (medal no. 18), as Italian, fifteenth century.
1908
A Cabinet of One Hundred & Thirty-Three Bronze Plaques and Medals of the Renaissance Period from the Collection of the Late Herr Oscar Hainauer of Berlin. Ed. Duveen Brothers. London, n.d. (but 1908): no. 110, repro., as Italian, fifteenth century.
1930
Hill, George Francis. A Corpus of Italian Medals of the Renaissance before Cellini. 2 vols. London, 1930: 787.
1942
Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 15.
1983
Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 31, no. 5.
Inscriptions
around circumference: PAVLO.VENETO.PAPE.II.ANNO.PVBLICATIONIS.IVBILEI ROMA* (Paul of Venice, second pope [of that name], in the year of the publication of the Jubilee, in Rome)
Wikidata ID
Q63809182