Astorgio Manfredi
Astorgio Manfredi
3D
Published 2017-06-12T11:38:35+00:00
This work represents one of the first independent portrait busts made in Europe since antiquity, reflecting Mino da Fiesole's reinvention of the portrait bust as an artistic type, first in Florence and then elsewhere.
A Latin inscription carved on the underside identifies the subject and artist: "Astorgio Manfredi II, lord of Faenza, 42 years old, 1455, the work of Nino." Astorgio by this time had been ruler of Faenza for seven years and a military commander for almost 25. He is immortalized with starkly unidealized realism, his power conveyed by a brocaded mantle over field armor consisting of a chain mail shirt and metal breast plate fastened with a worn leather strap.
| Date published | 12/06/2017 |
| Title | Astorgio Manfredi |
| Date | 1455 |
| Period | Realism |
| Medium | Marble |
| Artist | Mino da Fiesole |
| Place | National gallery of Art, Washington DC |
