Word: alberti
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Dates: during 1904-1904
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...very elaborate. They are divided by stiles and rails intersecting in carved rosettes. Eight are occupied by portrait medallions of famous architectural designers of the past, and the rest by shields with the Harvard "H." On the left hand door are the heads of Brunelleschi, Michael Angelo, Alberti and Sangallo, and on the right, Lescot, Peruzzi, Bramante and Sansovino...
...chief Italian and the chief French master in works of this class, Vittore Pisano, and Dupre, are represented in this collection. Among the portraits by these and other medalists are those of Alfonzo V of Aragon, Lionello D'Este of Ferrara, Filippe Maria, Visconti of Milan, Leon Battista Alberti, Cosimo de Medici and Lorenzo de Medici. The medals are, for the most part, of considerable size, ranging from 40 or 50 to nearly 200 millimetres in diameter...