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The medallion is dated by subject matter and style and to the period of the Roman empire, probably the late second or early third century. [4] The foreground depicts, at the left, a lightly armed retiarius , equipped with a net and trident, fighting a more heavily armed and armoured secutor at the right. [ 5 ]
A medallion is a round or oval ornament [1] that frames a sculptural or pictorial decoration in any context, but typically a façade, an interior, a monument, or a piece of furniture or equipment. Ancient Roman round versions are called an imago clipeata , from the clipeus or Roman round shield.
In her outstretched left hand Britannia holds an olive wreath above the ansate tablet bearing the deceased's name cast in raised letters. Below the name tablet, to the right of the lion, is an oak spray with acorns. The name does not include the rank since there was to be no distinction between sacrifices made by different individuals. [1]
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Art medallions are a primitive art form said to have been first introduced in Ancient Rome chiefly to display portrait effigies of noted persons such as kings and queens. . Most art medallions were hand cast in bronze or similar metal alloys, and slowly found their way into monetary coinage using a struck method of cas
The appearance at an auction in 1982, from the Thomas Merton collection, of a rarely seen painting by Botticelli of a Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel identified (with no real evidence) as Giovanni il Popolano in a similar pose, holding up a round medallion cut from a much older painting (albeit of a bearded saint, not Cosimo), has led ...
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From left to right, they depict the apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes; St. Bridget; Our Lady of Guadalupe; and St. Kateri Tekakwitha. Apart from the common run of pious medals, a number of various religious pieces were produced connected with places, confraternities, religious orders, saints, mysteries, miracles, devotions, &c., and other ...