Portrait Medal of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta

Artist Matteo de Pasti (Italian, 1420 - 1467)

Date1446

MediumBronze

DimensionsOverall: 1/8 × 3 1/8 inches (0.32 × 7.94 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number69-9

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

Exhibition History

Triumph of Humanism: Renaissance Decorative Art: A Visual Survey of the Decorative Arts of the Renaissance, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, October 22, 1977-January 9, 1978, no. 18.

Provenance

With Michael Hall Fine Arts, Inc., April 17, 1969;

Purchased from Michael Hall Fine Arts, Inc. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1969.

Published References

Graham Pollard, Renaissance Medals From the Samuel H. Kress Collection at the National Gallery of Art; Based on the Catalogue of Renaissance Medals in the Gustave Dreyfus Collection (London: Phaidon Press, 1967), 17.

Charles Avery, The Triumph of Humanism: A Visual Survey of the Decorative Arts of the Renaissance, exh. cat. (San Francisco: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1978), 33.

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