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Bartolommeo della Rovere (1447-1494), Bishop of Ferrara

Bartolommeo della Rovere (1447-1494), Bishop of Ferrara

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Sperandio di Bartolommeo Savelli

Artist
Sperandio di Bartolommeo Savelli
(Italian, ca. 1425/1430 - after 1504)
Title
Bartolommeo della Rovere (1447-1494), Bishop of Ferrara
Date
designed 1474; early cast
Medium
Lead or bell metal
Dimensions
diam: 83.3 mm overall
Credit
Gift of Vernon and Sandra Hall
Accession No.
1977.1417
Classification
Medals
Geography
Italy

Related

After 1947, sold by numismatist, Mark M. Salton (New York, NY), to Vernon Hall (Madison, WI); 21 November 1978, 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. p. 65, no. 375
  • Hall, Vernon. "Catalogue of the Vernon Hall Collection of European Medals." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1978. no. 59
  • Armand, Alfred. "Les médailleurs italiens des quinzième et seizième siècles." 2nd ed. 3 vols. Paris: E. Plon et Cie, 1883-1887. I: p. 73, I: no. 38
  • 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. 57-58, 151, cat. no. 17
  • Friedlaender, Julius. "Die italienischen Schaumünzen des fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts 1430-1530." Berlin: Weidmann, 1882. p. 66, no. 14
  • Börner, Lore. "Bestandskataloge des Münzkabinetts Berlin: Die italiensichen Medaillen der Renaissance und des Barock (1450-1750)." Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 1997. no. 132
  • Habich, Georg. "Die Medaillen der italienischen Renaissance." Stuttgart and Berlin: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1924. pl. 24.2
  • Middeldorf, Ulrich and Oswald Goetz. "Medals and Plaquettes from the Sigmund Morgenroth Collection." Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1944. no. 47

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