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Auction: 390 - Renaissance Plaquettes and Commemorative Medals featuring the Neil A. Goodman Collection - e-Auction
Lot: 83

MATTEO DE' PASTI (active 1441-1467)
Isotta degli Atti (1432/3-1474), mistress, later wife of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta. Medal, 1446. .D.ISOTTAE.ARIMINENSI., Bust right, her hair in a high frame, wearing veil fastened with a jewel atop forehead, rev. .ELEGIAE arranged around a closed book. The book on the reverse refers to the three volumes of thirty elegies commissioned by Malatesta in 1449-1451. Hill Corpus 188; Pollard NGA 35; Vannel Toderi (Bargello) 87-90; Börner 65. Pierced. A Very Fine old cast. Ex Mellors and Kirk, Fine Art Sale (Nottingham), September 20, 2017, lot 434.
From the Neil A. Goodman Collection

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$475

Starting price
$210