# Medal of Mary Tudor, Queen of England [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TREZZO, Jacopo da]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Cast bronze, diameter 7 cm ## Commentary Medal of Mary Tudor, Queen of England c. 1554 Cast bronze, diameter 7 cm British Museum, London The obverse of the medal depicts the bust of Mary I of England facing left, wearing an elaborate gown, a chemise, a pendant, a cap adorned with jewels, and a veil. Beaded border. Her features are given an extraordinary alertness, while the details of her costume are rendered with a precision that is nonetheless subordinate to the form of the body beneath and to the overlapping layers of drapery. The reverse of the medal shows a figure of Peace, draped and wearing a radiate crown, seated on a throne, below which are a cube bearing clasped hands and some scales. She holds in her right hand palm olive branches, and in her left a flaming torch with which she sets alight a pile of arms in front of a crowd of figures and a temple. To the left, suppliant figures beset by hailstorms. Above, rays issuing from a cloud. Below, water. ## Related artworks - [Bust of Don Carlos \(front side of the pendant\)]() - [Bust of Philip II of Spain \(back side of the pendant\)]() - [Medal of Gianello della Torre]() - [Medal of Ippolita Gonzaga]() - [Medal of Ippolita Gonzaga]() - [Tabernacle]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()