- Personage:
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Mohammad II, Sultan of Turkey
Mohammad II, Sultan of Turkey, (1430 – 1481)
- Artist:
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Bertoldo di Giovanni
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Florence, 1420–1491. Sculptor and medallist, student of Donatello. Died 1491 in Poggio a Caiano.
- Description:
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Obverse: · MAVMbET ASIE AC TRAPESVNZIS MAGNE OVE CRETIE IMPERAT: Bust facing left, with close-trimmed beard, turban, robe with broad falling collar, and crescent suspended round neck.
Reverse: Triumphal chariot facing right, drawn by two prancing horses, led by nude man, helmeted, carrying trophy over left shoulder (Mars); the car is decorated on the side by a swag depending from two lion’s masks and a throne from the seat of which rise flames; on the chariot, a man, with flying cloak fastened at neck, carrying in extended left hand, a small figure of a man who has in his extended arm, a globe or patera, and holding in right hand a cord which passes round the waists of three women, nude, wearing spiked crowns (CRETIE TRAPESVNTV ASIE). In exergue OPVS BERTOLDI FLORENTIN SCVLTOR IS between two reclining nude figures; on right, a man holding trident (the Sea); on right, a woman holding cornucopiae (the Earth).
- Background:
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Cast circa 1480-1481. As a sculptor Bertoldo is notable for his energetic, anatomically precise figures grouped in dynamic compositions.
- Diameter:
- 93.2 mm. Bronze cast.
- Evaluation:
- Good patina, some wear, likely original cast.
- Reference:
- Hill 911; Kress 248.