NiccolòPiccinino肖像奖章（正面）；A Griffin（反面） - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	NiccolòPiccinino肖像奖章（正面）；A Griffin（反面）
品名（英）	Portrait medal of Niccolò Piccinino (obverse); A Griffin (reverse)
入馆年号	1975年，1975.1.1304
策展部门	罗伯特·雷曼典藏系列（Robert Lehman Collection）
创作者	Pisanello (Antonio Pisano)【1395 至 1455】【意大利人】
创作年份	公元 1440 - 公元 1600
创作地区
分类	奖章（Medals）
尺寸	直径 8.7 厘米, wt. 255.97 g.
介绍（中）	活跃于维罗纳和意大利宫廷的著名大师皮萨内洛留下了重要的遗产，包括大量的素描和几幅画作。他还是纪念肖像奖章的发明者。这些奖章的灵感来自罗马硬币，背面有统治者的肖像和寓言，纪念个人或事件，并用作礼物和纪念品。尼科洛·皮奇尼诺（Niccolò Piccinino），他的姓氏意为"小人物"，是十五世纪意大利最有成就的职业军人之一。他主要为米兰公爵菲利波·玛丽亚·维斯康蒂（Filippo Maria Visconti）工作，后者最终收养了他，因此在奖章上增加了VICECOMES（维斯康蒂）的名字。这幅肖像画基于卢浮宫的一幅画，唯一的区别是主题在奖牌上穿着盔甲，在画中穿着平民服装。奖牌的背面描绘了一只狮鹫，这是意大利中部城市佩鲁贾的象征，佩奇尼诺出生在那里。在艺术家的自负中，狮鹫取代了罗马标志性的母狼，不是罗穆卢斯和雷姆斯作为城市的后代，而是两个骗子：皮奇尼诺和他的导师布拉乔·达·蒙托内。
介绍（英）	Active in Verona and the Italian courts, the celebrated master Pisanello left behind a significant legacy, including a large corpus of drawings and several paintings. He was also the inventor of the commemorative portrait medal. Inspired by Roman coins, with their portraits of rulers and allegorical representations on the reverse, the medals commemorated individuals or events and functioned as gifts and mementoes. Niccolò Piccinino, his surname meaning the "tiny one," was one of the most accomplished condottieri (professional soldiers) in fifteenth-century Italy. He worked primarily for the Duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti, who eventually adopted him, hence the addition of the name VICECOMES (Visconti) on the medal. The portrait is based on a drawing in the Louvre, the only difference being that the subject is wearing armor in the medal and civilian garb in the drawing. The medal’s reverse portrays a griffin, the symbol of Perugia, the city in central Italy where Piccinino was born. In a masterful conceit of the artist, the griffin replaces the iconic she-wolf of Rome, suckling not Romulus and Remus, as offspring of the city, but two condottieri: Piccinino and his mentor, Braccio da Montone.