Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00010753Portrait of Leonello D'Este, Marquess of Ferrara (obverse)
by Pisanello
Also known as: Leonella d'Este, Marquess of Ferrara
About the Artwork
Renaissance medals usually show a person on the front and a symbolic element on the back, creating an overall statement about the individual. Lionello d'Este was one of the most sophisticated patrons in Renaissance Italy, and he was one of the first figures to sponsor the tradition of medals in the 1400s.
Inscriptions
obverse: LEONELLVS MARCHIO ESTENSIS, separated by olive branches.
Provenance
Private collection (Switzerland) Paul Drey Gallery (New York, New York), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1971.
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Pisanello (Italian, Ferrara, c. 1395–1455)
- Date
- c. 1440–44
- Medium
- bronze
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 7 cm (2 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Accession no.
- 1971.4.a
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