Emperor Claudius, 10 B.C.-54 A.D., Emperor 41-54 [obverse]

c. 1450

Varrone Belferdino

Medalist, Florentine, active before 1445 - 1457

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On View

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G16

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall (diameter): 8.98 cm (3 9/16 in.)
    gross weight: 267.04 gr (0.589 lb.)
    axis: 12:00

  • Accession

    1988.30.1.a

Associated Artworks

Claudius, Attended by Minerva and Liberalitas, Distributing Largesse [obverse]

Varrone Belferdino

1450

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Goldschmidt, Paris); purchased 1937 by J.W. Frederiks [1889-1962], The Hague; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 23-24 May 1988, 1st day, no. 6); purchased by (Cyril Humphris, London) for NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2007

  • Pollard, John Graham. Renaissance Medals. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. 2 vols. Washington, 2007: 1:no. 230, repro.

2008

  • Pfisterer, Ulrich. Lysippus und seine Freunde: Liebesgaben und Gedächtnis im Rom der Renaissance, oder, Das erste Jahrhundert der Medaille. Berlin, 2008: 103, fig. 54a.

Inscriptions

around circumference: CLAVDIVS.DRVSI.AVGX.PON.MAX.TRE.POT.DIVVS.VAPRVS.PITTOR.F.; left and right in field: S[enatus] C[onsultus]

Wikidata ID

Q63861121

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