Triumphal Car with Greece, Trebizond, and Asia (reverse) by BERTOLDO DI GIOVANNI

BERTOLDO DI GIOVANNI

(b. ca. 1420, d. 1491, Poggio a Caiano)

c. 1480
Bronze, diameter 94 mm
National Gallery of Art, Washington

Inscription center left: GRETIE TRAPESVNTY ASIE; lower centre: OPVS / BERTOLDI / FLORENTIN[i] / SCVLTOR / IS.

The obverse of the medal portrays Mehmed II, Sultan of the Turks.