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Mehmed II

(Italian (Florence), 1420–1491)
about 1480
Place of ManufactureFlorence, Italy
Medium/TechniqueMetal; cast bronze
DimensionsDiameter: 9.5 cm (3 3/4 in.)
Credit LineTheodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Zoë Wilbour
Accession number68.552
On View
On view
ClassificationsNumismatics
Collections
InscriptionsObverse: Inscribed at edge "MAVMhET ASIE ACTRAPESUNZIS MAGNE QVE GRETIE IMPERAT·" ["Mehmed, emperor of Asia and also Trebizond and Magna Graecia"]. Reverse: Inscribed above three nudes "GRETIE" ["Greece"] and "TRAPESVNTY" ["Trebizond"] and "ASIA" ["Asia"] and at bottom between two reclining nudes "BERTOLDI/FLORENTIN/SCVLTOR/IS".
ProvenanceBy 1968, Cyril Humphris, London; 1968, sold by Cyril Humphris to the MFA. (Accession date: September 11, 1968)
Self-portrait
Self-portrait
Giovanni di Pasqnalino Boldù
about 1458
Lorenzo de'Medici
Niccolò di Forzore Spinelli (called Niccolò Fiorentino)
16th century or modern cast
Giovanna Albizzi Tornabuoni
Niccolò di Forzore Spinelli (called Niccolò Fiorentino)
Possible reproduction of about 1480–1500 original
Federigo da Montefeltro
Francesco di Giorgio
late 15th century
Caracalla, the young Emperor
Giovanni di Pasqnalino Boldù
1466
Costanzo Sforza
Giovanni Francesca Enzola
1475
Leonello d'Este
Leonello d'Este
Antonio Pisano (called Pisanello)
about 1440–50
Christ and Saint Paul
Christ and Saint Paul
about 1492–1500
Francesco IV Gonzaga
Francesco IV Gonzaga
J. B. Keller
1654
Group shot: 23.206-7
Isotta degli Atti
Matteo de' Pasti
about 1450
Louis XII and Anne of Brittany
Jean Perreal
1499
Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu
Jean Warin
1630