Francesco Sforza (1401-1466), condottiere, Duke of Milan after 1450

After 1947, sold by numismatist, Mark M. Salton (New York, NY), to Vernon Hall (Madison, WI); 17 October 1976, gifted by Vernon and Sandra Hall (Madison, WI) to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

• Hill, George Francis. "A Corpus of Italian Medals of the Renaissance Before Cellini." London: British Museum, 1930. pl. 4; no. 23
• Hall, Vernon. "Catalogue of the Vernon Hall Collection of European Medals." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1978. no. 11
• Armand, Alfred. "Les médailleurs italiens des quinzième et seizième siècles." 2nd ed. 3 vols. Paris: E. Plon et Cie, 1883-1887. I: p. 8, I: no. 22
• Norris, Andrea S., and Kendall Curlee. "The Sforza Court: Milan in the Renaissance 1450-1535" [gallery guide]. Austin, TX: Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, 1988. p. 25, no. 81
• Baker, D. Frederick, "A University Collects: The Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin," in Antiques & Fine Art Magazine (Autumn/Winter 2013) vol. XII, issue 6 :184-193. p. 188, no. 5
• Chazen Museum of Art. "European Medals in the Chazen Museum of Art: Highlights from the Vernon Hall Collection and Later Acquisitions." Madison: Chazen Museum of Art, 2014. pp. 24-26, 143, cat. no. 2
• Hill, George Francis and Graham Pollard. "Renaissance Medals from the Samuel H. Kress Collection at the National Gallery of Art." London: Phaidon Press, for the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1967. no. 5
• Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini." New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011. no. 98

• Europe
• Medals
• Vernon Hall Collection

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