Bellini, Gentile | Bust of Mehmet II
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)
Antonio Benintendi (workshop) | Portrait Bust of Lorenzo de’ Medici
Warren, Jeremy, Vol 2 Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum Publications, 2014) deAngelis, Adrienne, “On the Ashmolean Bust of Lorenzo de’ Medici,” Sculpture Journal (2005) Luchs, Alison, “Lorenzo from life? Renaissance portrait busts of Lorenzo de’ Medici,” The Sculpture Journal (2000) Warren, Jeremy, “A portrait bust of Lorenzo de’ Medici in Oxford,” The Sculpture Journal (1998)
Iznik (probable place of creation) | Tondino dish with spiral patterning
Allan, James W., Islamic Ceramics, Ashmolean-Christie’s Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1991)
Montelupo School | Jug with arms of the degli Alessandri
LITERATURE Timothy Wilson, Italian Maiolica and Europe (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2017), pp. 62 – 63, cat. 13. Catalogue note. Click here to access.
Italian School | The Virgin and Child
LITERATURE Wilson, Timothy, Italian Maiolica and Europe (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum Publications, 2017) Warren, Jeremy, Vol 2 Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum Publications, 2014)
Nicola da Urbino | Plate with the Calumny of Apelles
LITERATURE Timothy Wilson, Italian Maiolica and Europe (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2017), pp. 133 – 135, cat. 54. Catalogue note. Click here to access. Timothy Wilson, Italian Maiolica and Europe (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2017), pp. 131 – 132. Biography of Nicola da Urbino. Click here to access.
Francia, circle of | Female figure, perhaps Venus
Warren, Jeremy, Vol 1 Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum Publications, 2014) Thornton, Dora, “The status and display of small bronzes in the Italian Renaissance interior,” Sculpture Journal (2001)
Briosco (after) | Pan
Warren, Jeremy, Vol 1 Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum Publications, 2014)