Cupid Riding on a Dragon
Moderno
c. 1500
Medium
bronze//Medium brown patina (much rubbed)
Dimensions
overall (diameter): 8.4 cm (3 5/16 in.) gross weight: 102 gr
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CSD
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Accession Number
1957.14.312
About the Artist
Moderno
Galeazzo Mondella, known to history as Moderno, was born in Verona in 1467 and became one of the most accomplished and widely admired creators of bronze plaquettes during the Italian Renaissance. He joined the Goldsmiths' Guild of Verona in 1485 at the age of eighteen, and by 1487 he had begun working at the court of Mantua, where he adopted the name Moderno—chosen in deliberate counterpoint to hi...