Cincinnatus at the Plough, Filarete, mid-15th century


Cincinnatus at the Plough, mid-15th century, Italian, Rome, Bronze, Overall (confirmed): H. 2 1/2 x W. 5 5/16 x D. 1/8 in. ( x x cm), Medals and Plaquettes, Filarete (Antonio di Pietro Averlino) (Italian, Florence ca. 1400–ca. 1469 Rome), Filarete was the earliest Renaissance maker of bronze plaquettes after his own designs, byproducts of his work on the bronze double door of Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome (ca. 1433–45). The door's main reliefs have Christian subjects, but its borders contain figures and myths from classical antiquity


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