Hercules和Diomedes广场 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	Hercules和Diomedes广场
品名（英）	Plaquette with Hercules and Diomedes
入馆年号	1942年，42.50.162
策展部门	武器和盔甲（Arms and Armor）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1550 - 公元 1600
创作地区	原产国: 德国, 可能是奥格斯堡（Country of Origin: Germany, Probably Augsburg）
分类	混杂的（Miscellaneous）
尺寸	直径 2 3/4 英寸 (7 厘米); 重 2.4 盎司 (68 g)
介绍（中）	这个装饰性老板的中心部分描绘了赫拉克勒斯在树木和左侧城堡暗示的景观中与狄奥墨得斯的食肉母马战斗。这个场景是从 Moderno （Galeazzo Mondella）于 1508 年在圆形牌匾上发现的原始构图复制而来的，该作品显示了忒修斯之子希波吕图斯的死亡。赫拉克勒斯和第五匹马被添加到现代诺的场景中，该场景显示了四匹马和底部的希波吕图斯从他的战车上掉下来，将其转变为赫拉克勒斯和狄奥墨得斯（希波吕图斯被重新解释为狄奥墨得斯被他自己的马杀死）。德国青铜创始人会经常使用意大利奖章或牌匾作为他们作品的模型，包括装饰元素，比如这个，用于各种物体，如火药瓶或手枪（边缘上的四个孔表明的用途）。他们还制作了类似的凸起来装饰马钻头的侧面。这个场景似乎是16世纪下半叶德国南部制造的钻头和牌匾的常见设计（另见42.50.161）。
介绍（英）	The central part of this ornamental boss depicts Hercules fighting the carnivorous mares of Diomedes in a landscape suggested by trees and a castle on the left. This scene is copied from an original composition found on a circular plaquette by Moderno (Galeazzo Mondella) dated 1508 showing the Death of Hippolytus, son of Theseus. Hercules and a fifth horse were added to Moderno’s scene, which shows four horses and Hippolytus at the bottom falling from his chariot, to transform it into Hercules and Diomedes (Hippolytus being reinterpreted as Diomedes killed by his own horses). German bronze founders would regularly use Italian medals or plaquettes as models for their works, including decorative elements, like this one, for various objects like powder flasks or pistols (a use suggested by the four holes on the rim). They also produced similar bosses for decorating the sides of horse bits. This scene seems to have been a common design for bit bosses and plaquettes made in Southern Germany in the second half of the 16th century (see also 42.50.161).