Title

Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond, after ca. 1461. Creator: Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso.

Caption

Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond, after ca. 1461. Marriage chest is said to have come from the Palazzo Strozzi shows the battle between Ottoman and Byzantine troops at Trebizond.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM20A36_312

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

47,9Mb (5,1Mb) / 16,5in x 11,3in / 4960 x 3378 (300dpi)

Keywords

Italy Italian building wood country marriage box Turkey museum decorative palace wooden war boxes Renaissance Byzantine location century conquest object concept battle linen OTTOMAN Colour The Met Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art Byzantium 15th century cassone fifteenth century Karadeniz kiyisi marriage chest TGN Trabzon object Byzantine Empire Trebizond poplar wood Heritage Art Poplar wood linen polychromed and gilded gesso with panel painted in tempera and gold Palazzo Strozzi polychromed and gilded gesso with panel painted in tempera and gold Attributed to workshop of Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso (Italian Florence ca. 1416-1465 Florence) James Abbott McNeill Whistler