About the Artwork
Sigismond Pandolfo Malatesta (obverse); The Castle at Rimini (reverse)
1446
Matteo dei Pasti
ca. 1420-after 1467
Italian
Unknown
Bronze cast
Overall: 5/8 × 3 3/16 inches (1.6 × 8.1 cm)
Medals
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund
38.36
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, on front: SIGISMUNDVS PANDVLFVS. MALATESTA. PAN. F. Inscribed, on rear: CASTELLVM. SISMVNDVM. ARIMINENSE. M.CCCC.XLVI.
Provenance
Edward Cheney, Esq. (London, England)
Marchese Trivulzio (Milan, Italy)
(Piero Tozzi)
1938-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Armand, A. Les Medailleurs Italiens des quinzieme et seizieme siecles, 3 vols. Paris, 1883, 1: 20, no. 12.
Catalogue of Bronzes and Ivories of European Origin. Exh. cat., Burlington Fine Arts Club. London, 1879, cat. no. 443, p. 72.
Forrer, L. Biographical Dictionary of the Medallist. London, 1904, p. 30.
Hill, G.F. Numismatic Chronicle, vol. 17. 1917, pp. 298-312.
Bowdoin-Salton Collection, 1965, no. 10 .
Hill, G.F. A Corpus of Italian Medals of the Renaissance before Cellini, ed. G. Pollar, 2nd ed. London, 1930, Florence, 1984, p. 42, no. 184.
Prescott, O. Princes of the Renaissance. New York, 1969, p. 279.
Paisini, P.G. Note su Matteo de'Pasti e la medaglistica Malatestina, in La medaglia d'arte. Atti del primo convegno internazionale di studio, 10-12 ottobre. Udine, 1973, pp. 41-75.
Bowdoin-Molinari Collection. Brunswick, 1976, p. 12.
Selected Renaissance Works of Art from the Permanent Collection. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1982, p. 5.
Paisini, P.G. Matteo de Pasti: Problems of Style and Chronology, in Italian Medals. Studies in the History of Art 21. Washington D.C., 1987, pp. 143-159.
Scher, S. The Currency of Fame: Portrait Medal of the Renaissance. Exh. cat., The Frick Collection. New York, 1994, pp. 64, 73-76, no. 14 (ill.).
Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Boström, C. Avery, et al. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2002, II, cat. 192
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Matteo dei Pasti, Sigismond Pandolfo Malatesta (obverse); The Castle at Rimini (reverse), 1446, bronze cast. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 38.36.
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