An Allegory of Faith: Lions Devouring a Nude Youth [obverse]
Sculptor, Bolognese, active 1468/1484


West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G16
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze//Yellow-brown patina
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (diameter): 6 cm (2 3/8 in.)
gross weight: 57.7 gr (0.127 lb.) -
Accession
1957.14.446.a
Associated Artworks

Frieze of Tritons and Nereids [reverse]
Master IO.F.F.
1404
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Gustave Dreyfus [1837-1914], Paris; his estate; purchased 1930 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); purchased 1945 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1957 to NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1931
Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. vol.II, 312.
1965
Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 112.
1983
Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 97, no. 1.
1998
Bekker, Gerd. Europäische Plaketten und Medaillen vom 15. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert. Leipzig, 1998: 51.
Inscriptions
upper center on scroll: AM/ANDO IO ("As I love"); around circumference: ET.SI.CORPVS.NON.FIDES.MACVLABITVR [followed by a leafy branch] (though the body may be defiled, [my] faith shall not)[1]
Wikidata ID
Q63814943