The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families
$63.00
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- 380g/m² cotton canvas — certified museum quality
- Solid wood stretcher bar with 0.75” gallery wrap
- HD Giclée print — colour-true to the original
- Ready to hang — hanging hardware included
The Triumph of Fame, painted around 1449 by Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi, known as Scheggia (younger brother of the great Masaccio), decorates a desco da parto — a ceremonial birth tray commissioned to celebrate the birth of a son to the powerful Medici family of Florence. That child would grow up to become Lorenzo the Magnificent, and the tray's imagery seems, in hindsight, to anticipate his illustrious destiny.
On the front, knights kneel in allegiance before an allegorical figure of Fame, who bears a sword and winged cupid symbolizing renown won through arms and love — imagery drawn from Boccaccio's L'Amorosa Visione and Petrarch's Trionfi. The reverse displays the Medici family's heraldic device, a diamond ring with three ostrich feathers and the motto Semper, alongside the joined coats of arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni families, commemorating the 1444 marriage of Piero de' Medici and Lucrezia Tornabuoni.
Held in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this museum-quality stretched canvas reproduction is printed on premium matte canvas and hand-wrapped around a solid 0.75-inch gallery wrap frame — ready to hang and built to last.
| Artist | Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) |
| Year | ca. 1449 |
| Medium | Tempera on wood |
| Dimensions | Diameter 36 1/2 in. (92.7 cm) |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Movement | Renaissance |
