Renaissance Bronze

Toward an opus of Niccoló Avanzi, gem engraver of the late Quattrocento and early Cinquecento

An anonymous cameo in the Cabinet of Medals (Paris) might be a scarce survival of Niccoló Avanzi’s workmanship, praised briefly in Vasari’s 1568 edition of the ‘Lives of the Artists,’ and a plaquette depicting the Adoration might theoretically preserve one of his lost works.
Bernardi or Wallbaum?

Discussing a plaquette relief popularly attributed to the Italian gem engraver, Giovanni Bernardi, but herewith correctly attributed to Matthaus Wallbaum.

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Toward an opus of Niccoló Avanzi, gem engraver of the late Quattrocento and early Cinquecento