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Auction: 8004 - An Important Collection of Renaissance Medals & Plaquettes
Lot: 105

Gian Cristoforo Romano (c.1465-1512) Isabella d´Este, bronze medal, 38mm., an old cast of the later, corrected, version, brown patina Obverse: bust of Isabella in profile to the right, her hair loosely tied in plaits and falling from a knot, wearing a necklace, ISABELLA ESTEN MARCH MA Reverse: A winged female figure, Astrology, standing left, holding a wand, a serpent in front of her and a star by the sign of Sagittarius above, BENE M ERE NTIVM ERGO (For those that do her service) Isabella d´Este Gonzaga (1474-1539), daughter of Ercole I, Duke of Ferrara, married 1490, Francesco, Marquis of Mantua (died 1519). The reverse legend has been corrected from the incorrect MOERENTIVM. ´Isabella, like most cultivated poeple of her time, dabbled in the so called science. There is something peculiarly attractive and genial about his medal´ (Hill-Pollard p.51) References Armand II, 90, 6; Hall 81; Hill 1923, 28, fig.14; Hill 221; Kress 76 Estimate £ 300-500

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