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Auction: 390 - Renaissance Plaquettes and Commemorative Medals featuring the Neil A. Goodman Collection - e-Auction
Lot: 63

GALEAZZO MONDELLA called Il MODERNO (1467-1528)
Saint Sebastian. Rectangular plaquette. Gilt Bronze, 56 x 77mm. The Saint, pierced by three arrows, tied to a Corinthian column; at left a pier decorated with the figure of Venus and two horsemen, at right, a pier broken on top, adorned with the figure of Mars and an eagle. Bange 433. Bargello 105; London, British Museum (2 examples); Maclagan, pp. 29-30; Naples 32; Oxford Ashmolean 71; Paris, Louvre, 305; Planiscig 351; Ricci ii, pp. 138, 177; Pope-Hennessy 154. cf. Spink Sale 193 (London), January 24, 2009, lot 26 [not gilt]. There are no signed versions of this plaquette known; the attribution is based on similarities with signed works. A possible source for the composition is given to us by Planiscig, who identified a relief of St Sebastian by Caradosso, described by Ambrogio di Leone in his dialogue De Nobilitate Rerum published in Venice in 1525.
Pierced; with label "274" and red ink "6" on back. An Extremely Fine cast, with much residual gilding. Ex Luc Smolderen, Künker Sale 282, September 28, 2016, lot 4846 (part).
From the Neil A. Goodman Collection

Sold for
$850

Starting price
$700