About the Artwork
Marc Antonio Magno
16th century
Leone Leoni
1509-1590
Italian
Unknown
Bronze cast
Overall: 3/8 × 2 5/16 inches (1 × 5.9 cm)
Medals
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Director's Discretionary Fund
59.320
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, on front: M. ANTONIVS MAGNVS. Inscribed, on rear: QVO ME FATA VOCANT.
Provenance
(Alfred Spero, London, England)
1959-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Armand, A. Les Medailleurs Italiens des quinzieme et seizieme siecles, 3 vols. Paris, 1883, 3: 273.
Habich, Georg. Die medaillen der Italienischen Renaissance. 1922, p. 131 (pl. XCVII), no. 4.
Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Boström, C. Avery, et al. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2002, II, cat. 198.
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attributed to Leone Leoni, Marc Antonio Magno, 16th century, bronze cast. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Director's Discretionary Fund, 59.320.
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