PASTI, Matteo de'
(b. ca. 1420, Verona, d. ca. 1468, Rimini)

Medal of Leon Battista Alberti

1450-55
Cast bronze, diameter 9 cm
British Museum, London

Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was an Italian architect and Renaissance humanist polymath. The obverse of the medal represents Alberti wearing close fitting dress, while the reverse shows a laurel wreath within which a winged human eye.




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