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Gentile Bellini
Portrait of Mehmet II
Medal, bronze
HCR6240

LITERATURE

Elizabeth Rodini, Gentile Bellini’s Portrait of Sultan Mehmed II: Lives and Afterlives of an Iconic Image (London: Bloomsbury, 2020), Chapter II. To access click here

For a general introduction on portrait medals, and catalogue notes on comparable examples in other collections see: Scher, Stephen, The Currency of Fame: Portrait Medals of the Renaissance (New York, The Frick Collection, 1994)