Agostino Ardenti
Agostino Ardenti
mid-16th century
(active ca.1563 - )
An artist who signs himself AA and works in a free, sometimes rough style related to that of Ruspagiari.
See Rosenheim and Hill, "Notes on Some Italian Medals," Burlington Magazine 12 (1907-08), pp. 141- 54 (at 141-47); R. F. Burckhardt, "Ueber die Medaillensammlung des Ludovic Demoulin de Rochefort im Historischen Museum zu Basel," Anzeiger für Schweizerischer Altertumskunde, NF. 20 (1918), pp. 36-53 (at pp. 42-49); Hill, Med. Ren., p. 103; Hill, N. I. A., nos. 10, 11, 78, 113, 215; Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Die italienischen Bronzen der Renaissance und des Barock, bearbeitet von E. F. Bange, Berlin/Leipzig 1922, nos. 256-59; Bernhart, p. 77 (Lucretia Grilinciona?) ; G. F. Hill, "Some Italian Medals of the Sixteenth Century," Georg Habich zum 60. Geburtstag, Munich 1928, pp. 11-12.
--- from The Molinari Collection, Andrea S. Norris and Ingrid Weber, Published by Bowdoin College, 1976
2 objects
ca. 1563
lead
Gift of Amanda Marchesa Molinari
1966.106.21.a
ca. 1563
lead
Gift of Amanda Marchesa Molinari
1966.106.21.b