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Auction: 8004 - An Important Collection of Renaissance Medals & Plaquettes
Lot: 102

Matteo de´ Pasti (active 1441-1467) Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, bronze medal, 39.5mm., an old cast, brown patina Obverse: laureate bust of Sigismondo in profile to the left, wearing plate armour over shirt of mail, ·SIGISMVNDVS PANDVLFVS· MALATESTA· PAN· F· Reverse: front view of San Francesco at Rimini according to Alberti´s proposed reconstruction, PRAECL· ARIMINI· TEMPLVM· AN· GRATIAE· V·F· ·M·CCCC·L· The church of San Francesco at Rimini was dedicated in 1450 but never finished. For the façade see C. Brandi, Il Tempio Malatestiano, Turin 1956, pp.14-20. This was the foundation medal, and many specimens have been excavated at Rimini. References Armand I, 21, 17; Bargello 1, 47; Hall 47; Hill 183; Hill-Pollard p.46; Kress 66; Middledorf 28; Middeldorf-Stiebral XXV Estimate £ 200-400

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