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They originated in the 1440s with the desire to reproduce coins and hardstone engravings from ancient Greece and Rome. Some were made as collector’s pieces, to be viewed and displayed in private, and others for practical or devotional purposes, such as decorations for caskets, ink-stands and paxes. Belli spent the most important part of his career in Rome, working for two successive popes. Almost all of his bronze plaquettes are cast from his engravings in rock crystal or hardstone.  This signed plaquette derives from a rock-crystal plaque that formed part of Belli's masterpiece, a casket with 24 scenes from the life of Christ, completed for Pope Clement VII in 1537. The bronze would have been cast from a plaster or brass mould deriving from the original hardstone engraving.","physicalDescription":"Bronze plaquette depicting the Presentation of Christ in the Temple. Simeon stands to the left of the draped altar holding the Child, behind him are three men; to the right is the Virgin carrying a candle in her right hand, behind her are two women one of whom holds a basket with two doves. In the background is a domed temple on the frieze of which is the inscription 'VALERIVS VICETINVS'. 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Versions of the plaquette are recorded in the Berlin State Museum, the Este collection and the Naples Museum.  For all the bronze versions see Burns et al 2000.","historicalContext":"Shows how images known from engraved gems and hardstones persisted and often appeared again in bronze plaquettes and small reliefs.","briefDescription":"Plaquette, bronze, depicting the Presentation of Christ in the Temple, by Valerio Belli, Italy, 16th century","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Maclagan, E, <font -u>Catalogue of Italian Plaquettes</font>, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1924, p.62"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Fortnum, C D E, <font -u>A Descriptive Catalogue of the Bronzes of European Origin in the South Kensington Museum</font>, London, 1876, p.72"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Molinier, E, <font -u>Les Plaquettes:  catalogue raisonné</font>, Paris, 1886, no.263"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Kris, E, <font -u>Meister und meisterwerke der steinschneidekunst in der Italienischen Renaissance</font>, Vienna, 1929 (reprinted 1979), p.162, no.170"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Burns, H, Collareta, M, Gasparotto, D, <font -u>Valerio Belli Vicentino 1468c.-1546</font>, Vicenza, 2000, p.324, no.31.2"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Inventory of Art Objects Acquired in the Year 1861 <u>In</u>: <u>Inventory of the Objects in the Art Division of the Museum at South Kensington, Arranged According to the Dates of their Acquisition. 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