Original scientific paper
The Question of the Identification of Two Male Portraits on the Foscari Plate in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Ivana Prijatelj Pavičić
; Department of Art History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, Split, Croatia
Abstract
A brass display plate in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London has been identified as a work by two artists: the Croatian-born Andrea Meldola (1522–1563), known in Italy as Andrea Schiavone, and Orazio Fontana (1510–1571), an engraver, painter, and majolica master from Casteldurante near Urbino. The plate was commissioned for the Venetian Foscari family. It has also been attributed to Orazio Fortezza, a metalsmith and engraver from Šibenik in Dalmatia, then part of the Venetian Republic.
In this article, the author discusses two portraits engraved in medallions on the plate. One portrait bears the initials AM and was
identified by Flora Turner-Vučetić as Andrea Meldola. On the basis of sixteenth-century descriptions, as well as paintings and drawings of Meldola, the author concludes that it is Meldola’s self-portrait. The other portrait on the Foscari plate is signed with the initials OF. Flora Turner-Vučetić argued that it depicts Orazio Fortezza. The author, however, believes that it is a portrait of Orazio Fontana, the famous majolica master from Urbino.
Keywords
Foscari plate from the Victoria and Albert Museum; Andrea Meldola, known as Andrea Schiavone; Orazio Fortezza; Orazio Fontana; Lando plate from the Cook Collection at Doughty House, Richmond; portrait of Andrea Meldola; portrait of Orazio Fontana; portrait of Orazio Fortezza; Battle of Cannae
Hrčak ID:
353312
URI
Publication date:
31.12.2025.
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