Girolamo Ridolfi of San Gimignano, 1465-1526, Apostolic Secretary, Consistorial Advocate, and Knight of the Golden Spur [obverse]
c. 1485
Artist, Florentine, 1430 - 1514

Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (diameter): 4.9 cm (1 15/16 in.)
gross weight: 38.92 gr (0.086 lb.)
axis: 12:00 -
Accession
1991.198.1.a
Associated Artworks

Pegasus [reverse]
Niccolò Fiorentino
1485
Artwork history & notes
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
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.
Inscriptions
around circumference: .HIE.DE.SANCTO.GEMINIANO.S.APS.
Wikidata ID
Q63860989