Portrait of a Man with a Medal of Cosimo the Elder
Painting by Sandro Botticelli / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Portrait of a Man with a Medal of Cosimo the Elder, also known as Portrait of a Youth with a Medal, is a tempera painting by Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli. The painting features a young man displaying in triangled hands a medal stamped with the likeness of Cosimo de' Medici. The identity of the young man has been a long-enduring mystery. Completed in approximately 1475, it is on display in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence.
Portrait of a Man with the Medal of Cosimo de' Medici the Elder | |
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Artist | Sandro Botticelli |
Year | c. 1474–1475 |
Medium | Tempera on panel |
Dimensions | 57.5 cm × 44 cm (22.6 in × 17 in) |
Location | Uffizi, Florence |
Central to the painting, seated before a landscape, is a young man with a medal between his hands. The man gazes out into the audience, while the medal displays the profiled likeness of Cosimo de' Medici. The medal is a pastiglia imitation of a real metal medal, made of gilded gesso and inset into the portrait.[1] As the medal is not reversed, evidently Botticelli either had access to the original mold or made a cast from the medal to produce his gesso.[2] The medal appears to be the same as one possibly designed by Donatello and cast in 1465, an example of which is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England, called "Cosimo de' Medici as Pater Patriae".[3][4][5]