Adoration of the Shepherds – 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.

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