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Medallion Jewelry with Portrait of Electress Sophie of Saxony
Tobias Wolff1583
Renaissance and Reformation. German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach
This gold medallion bears the profile of Duchess Sophie of Brandenburg (1568–1622), the wife since 1582 of Duke Christian (I) of Saxony. A jaunty little hat with a clasp, a ruff (so-called Mühlstein collar), and puffed sleeves are parts of her costume. On the obverse, an angel is holding the coat of arms of Brandenburg. The inscription is the motto of the duchess herself.
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Details
- Title: Medallion Jewelry with Portrait of Electress Sophie of Saxony
- Creator: Tobias Wolff
- Date Created: 1583
- Physical Dimensions: 7.6 × 3.4 cm; Diam. (medallion): 3.1 cm
- Technique and Material: Gold
- Provenance: Documented in 1592 in the estate of Elector Christian I of Saxony on a chain composed of symbolically joined hands holding a heart with the enameled initials CS, and in the Grünes Gewölbe since 1725
- Museum: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Grünes Gewölbe
- Inv.-No.: VIII 380 a-2
- ISIL-No.: DE-MUS-061827
- External Link: http://www.skd.museum/de/museen-institutionen/residenzschloss/gruenes-gewoelbe/historisches-gruenes-gewoelbe/index.html
- Copyright: Photo © Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Grünes Gewölbe/ Jürgen Karpinski; Text © Renaissance and Reformation: German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach, A Cooperation of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, and the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen München, Catalogue of the Exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Nov 20, 2016 – March 26, 2017, Munich: Prestel, 2016; cat. no. 113 / Christine Nagel
- Catalogue: https://prestelpublishing.randomhouse.de/book/Renaissance-and-Reformation/Stephanie-Buck/Prestel-com/e504919.rhd
- Artist Dates: unknown
- Artist Biography: unknown
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