Girolamo Ridolfi of San Gimignano, 1465-1526, Apostolic Secretary, Consistorial Advocate, and Knight of the Golden Spur [obverse], c. 1485

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Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall (diameter): 4.9 cm (1 15/16 in.)
gross weight: 38.92 gr (0.086 lb.)
axis: 12:00

Credit Line

Gift of Elaine Rosenberg, in Honor of Alexandre P. Rosenberg and the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1991.198.1.a

Artists / Makers

Niccolò Fiorentino (artist) Florentine, 1430 - 1514

Image Use

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Inscription

around circumference: .HIE.DE.SANCTO.GEMINIANO.S.APS.

Provenance

(Ratton & Ladrière, Paris), by 1986;[1] purchased 1987 by Alexandre Rosenberg, New York; by inheritance to his wife, Mrs. Elaine Rosenberg, New York; gift 1991 to NGA.

[1] Six specimens of the medal were recorded in 1930, of which two were then in private collections. The NGA medal is likely one of these two, either that in the collection of Aloïss Heiss of Paris or the one owned by Pozzi that had been sold in Paris by Feuardent and Sambon in 1919 (George Francis Hill, A Corpus of the Italian Medals of the Renaissance before Cellini, 2 vols., London, 1930: 1:no. 940, probably e or f).

Associated Names

Rosenberg, Elaine, Mrs.

Exhibition History

1994: The Currency of Fame: Portrait Medals of the Renaissance, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Frick Collection, New York; National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1994-1995, no. 43, repro.

Bibliography

2007: Pollard, John Graham. Renaissance Medals. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. 2 vols. Washington, 2007: 1:no. 297, repro.

2008: Pfisterer, Ulrich. Lysippus und seine Freunde: Liebesgaben und Gedächtnis im Rom der Renaissance, oder, Das erste Jahrhundert der Medaille. Berlin, 2008: 65, fig. 23.