About the Artwork
Philip II
1549
Leone Leoni
1509-1590
Italian
Unknown
Bronze cast
Overall: 1/4 × 3 3/16 inches (0.6 × 8.1 cm)
Medals
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Director's Discretionary Fund
59.325
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, on front: PHILIPVS. AVSTER. CAROLI. V. CAES. F. Inscribed, on rear: COLIT ARDVA. VIRTV(S).
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, 1:164, no. 11.
Plon, E. Les maitres italiens au service de la maison d'Autrice, Leone Leoni, sculpteur de Charles Quint, Pompeo Leoni, sculpteur de Phillipe II. Paris, 1887, p. 274, (pl. XXXIV) 9.
Habich, Georg. Die Medaillen der Italienischen Renaissance. p. 131 (pl. XCI/91), no 7.
The Renaissance Image of Man and the World. Exh. cat., Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts. Columbus, 1961, no. 70.
Pollard, J.G. Museo Nazionale del Bargello. Medaglie italiane del Rinascimento: Italian Renaissance Medals, 3 vols. Florence, 1984-1985, 3:1226-1227, no. 714.
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. 197.
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Leone Leoni, Philip II, 1549, bronze cast. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Director's Discretionary Fund, 59.325.
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