Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond

apollonio di giovanni (apollonio di tomaso) Florence Italy 1416 1461 1465 Purchased in 1913 from the Florentine dealer Stefano Bardini (1836–1922), this elaborate chest, or cassone, has long enjoyed status as one of the few fifteenth-century objects of its kind to survive intact and, moreover, to portray a contemporary historical event—the conquest of Trebizond, the last outpost of the Byzan