Medal: Don Iñigo dAvalos model ca. 1449-50 (possibly cast 19th or 20th century) Pisanello (Antonio Pisano) Italian Active in Verona and the Italian courts, the celebrated master Pisanello left behind a significant legacy, including a large corpus of drawings, several paintings, and the devopment of the Renaissance portrait medal. Inspired by Roman coins, with their portraits of rulers and allegorical representations on the reverse, the medals commemorated individuals or events and functioned as gifts and mementoes. Pisanellos medal of Don Inigo d'Avalos, grand chamberlain and military general to Alfonso V of Naples, depicts the sitter wearing a fur-trimmed robe and a hat composed of a rolled hood (cappuccio) and long draped portion. The image on the reverse - a spherical earth with the sea and starry sky -- may have been inspired by Homers description of the shield of Achilles in the ancient Greek poem, the Iliad. This interpretation would celebrate dAvalos military prowess; howev

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Medal: Don Iñigo dAvalos model ca. 1449-50 (possibly cast 19th or 20th century) Pisanello (Antonio Pisano) Italian Active in Verona and the Italian courts, the celebrated master Pisanello left behind a significant legacy, including a large corpus of drawings, several paintings, and the devopment of the Renaissance portrait medal. Inspired by Roman coins, with their portraits of rulers and allegorical representations on the reverse, the medals commemorated individuals or events and functioned as gifts and mementoes. Pisanellos medal of Don Inigo d'Avalos, grand chamberlain and military general to Alfonso V of Naples, depicts the sitter wearing a fur-trimmed robe and a hat composed of a rolled hood (cappuccio) and long draped portion. The image on the reverse - a spherical earth with the sea and starry sky -- may have been inspired by Homers description of the shield of Achilles in the ancient Greek poem, the Iliad. This interpretation would celebrate dAvalos military prowess; howev

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