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Auction: 8004 - An Important Collection of Renaissance Medals & Plaquettes
Lot: 40

The Master I.F.P. (c.1500) The Resurrection, rectangular bronze plaquette, 82.5mm. x 59mm., a good old cast, grey-brown patina, pierced at top Three soldiers lie sleeping before the empty tomb. On the shield resting by the soldier at the left are the initials I.F.P. In the middle distance a procession of mounted soldiers and other figures pass from right to left before a city wall, and in the distance to the right is Calvary. Above, on a cloud, stands the Risen Christ, raising his right hand and holding a banner in his left, with two kneeling angels at his sides and groups of cherubim in the top corners. The identity of the artist I.F.P. has been the subject of much debate. The plaquette probably derives from a niello of the same subject, signed DE OPUS PEREGRINI CES., which is known through four proofs (one in the British Museum). This, linked with another drawing in Lille signed Jac? pictor de… Bollogna povero (?) pelegrino´´ led Molinier to identify the artist as Giacomo Pellegrino or Giacomo Francia and so identify the I.F.P. of the plaquette as Jacobus Francia Peregrinus (or Pictor). Ricci followed him, translating I.F.P. as Jacobus Franciscus Pelligrinus. This is all conjecture. For now I.F.P. must remain an anonymous artist working in central Italy about 1500. References Bange 1922, 618 (unsigned and lacking the angels and cherubim); Cott p. 153; Kress 96; Molinier 257; Ricci, ii, pp. 170-171, no. 230; Estimate £ 500-800

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