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A plaquette is a small low relief sculpture in bronze or other materials. These were popular in Italian Renaissance sculpture and later. They may be commemorative, but especially in the Renaissance an
Horatius Cocles at the bridge, Renaissance plaquette by Master IO.F.F., late 15th century, Padua, 6.1 x 6.0 cm, in a shape for decorating a sword hilt
Peter Flötner, Vanitas, 1535–1540, gilt bronze
Allegorical Triumph of Giovanni Andrea Doria, Leone Leoni, 1541–42
Moderno, The Continence of Scipio, c. 1500–1510, 5.8 x 7.5 cm
Italian Renaissance sculpture was an important part of the art of the Italian Renaissance, in the early stages arguably representing the leading edge. The example of Ancient Roman sculpture hung very
Plaquette
…A plaquette (French: ; "small plaque") is a small low relief sculpture in bronze or other materials. These were popular in Italian Renaissance sculpture and later. They may be commemorative, but especially in the Renaissance and Mannerist periods were often made for purely decorative purposes, with often…
Painting of the Piazza della Signoria and Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence, 1830, Carlo Canella. From left, Fountain of Neptune, Rape of the Sabine by Giambologna, David by Michelangelo, one of the Medici Lions, Perseus with the Head of Medusa by Benvenuto Cellini, hiding Hercules and Cacus by Baccio Bandinelli. Away from the loggia wall, the Medici Pasquino Group, copying an ancient Roman subject.
Francesco Laurana, A Princess of the House of Aragon, c. 1475
Michelangelo's Pietà, completed in 1499.
Luca della Robbia, Resurrection, glazed terracotta, 1445.