Consider plaquettes
Dec 29, 2021
3 minutes
Huon Mallalieu
PLAQUETTES, small-scale reliefs cast in bronze and other metals, were fashionable among European collectors for 100 years or more from the mid 15th century. They could be rectangular or circular (when they are often referred to as medals, in the commemorative sense) and they might be designed by the greatest artists.
In the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence there is a wonderful painting of a cabinet of curiosities by Andrea Domenico Remps
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