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Veit Stoss of Nuremberg

Medal
ca. 1555-1560 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This is a silver medal made by Joachim Deschler in Germany in about 1555-1560. The medal represents Veit Stoss, the grandson of the sculptor of the same name, Veit Stoss. According to Habich, the sitter's father changed the family coat of arms in 1555, following the family's elevation to the aristocracy. The coat of arms is not listed in Siebmacher, and it is impossible to say whether the arms depicted on the reverse date from after 1555 or not. However, the medal may have been made to celebrate the elevation of the Stoss family, and is therefore tentatively dated to about 1555-1560.

Joachim Deschler (active 1532; d. ca. 1571), was a German sculptor, architect and medallist first based in Nuremberg. In 1547 he made a two-year study journey to Venice and Rome, from which he brought back numerous drawings and works of art. From the end of the 1550s Deschler lived in Vienna, where he was court sculptor for Maximilian. Deschler had an enormous output of medal art: 115 pieces are ascribed to him, and also several stone models.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleVeit Stoss of Nuremberg (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Silver
Brief description
Medal, silver, Veit Stoss of Nuremberg, by Joachim Deschler, Germany, ca. 1555-1560
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 3cm
  • Weight: 12.7g
Object history
Provenance: Tross. 140 medals and reliefs were purchased from M. Henri Tross of Paris for £500 by J.C. Robinson for the Museum in 1867.
Subjects depicted
Summary
This is a silver medal made by Joachim Deschler in Germany in about 1555-1560. The medal represents Veit Stoss, the grandson of the sculptor of the same name, Veit Stoss. According to Habich, the sitter's father changed the family coat of arms in 1555, following the family's elevation to the aristocracy. The coat of arms is not listed in Siebmacher, and it is impossible to say whether the arms depicted on the reverse date from after 1555 or not. However, the medal may have been made to celebrate the elevation of the Stoss family, and is therefore tentatively dated to about 1555-1560.

Joachim Deschler (active 1532; d. ca. 1571), was a German sculptor, architect and medallist first based in Nuremberg. In 1547 he made a two-year study journey to Venice and Rome, from which he brought back numerous drawings and works of art. From the end of the 1550s Deschler lived in Vienna, where he was court sculptor for Maximilian. Deschler had an enormous output of medal art: 115 pieces are ascribed to him, and also several stone models.
Bibliographic references
  • Trusted, Marjorie. German Renaissance Medals: A Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1990, p. 32
  • Inventory of Art Objects acquired in the Year 1867. Inventory of the Objects in the Art Division of the Museum at South Kensington, arranged According to the Dates of their Acquisition. Vol. 1. London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode for H.M.S.O., 1868, p. 19
Collection
Accession number
134-1867

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Record createdFebruary 24, 2004
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