Cosimo "il Vecchio" de' Medici (1389-1464)

After 1947, sold by numismatist, Mark M. Salton (New York, NY), to Vernon Hall (Madison, WI); 23 October 1974, 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. 147, no. 910 bis
• Hall, Vernon. "Catalogue of the Vernon Hall Collection of European Medals." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1978. no. 122
• Armand, Alfred. "Les médailleurs italiens des quinzième et seizième siècles." 2nd ed. 3 vols. Paris: E. Plon et Cie, 1883-1887. I: p. 10; II: p. 23, I: no. 32; II: no. 1
• 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. 60-63, 152, cat. no. 19
• 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. 247
• Pollard, John Graham with Eleonora Luciano and Maria Pollard. "Renaissance Medals. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art: Systemic Catalogue." Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2007. no. 281
• Friedlaender, Julius. "Die italienischen Schaumünzen des fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts 1430-1530." Berlin: Weidmann, 1882. p. 145, no. 3
• Johnson, Cesare and Rodolfo Martini. "Catalogo delle medaglie I. Secolo XV." Milan: Comune de Milano, Ripartizione cultura, 1986. nos. 616-617
• Börner, Lore. "Bestandskataloge des Münzkabinetts Berlin: Die italiensichen Medaillen der Renaissance und des Barock (1450-1750)." Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 1997. no. 355
• Pollard, John Graham. "Medaglie italiane del Rinascimento nel Museo nazionale del Bargello." 3 vols. Florence: Associazione Amici del Bargello, 1984-1985. no. 219-219b
• Fabriczy, Cornelius von. "Italian Medals." Translated by Mrs. Gustavus W. Hamilton. London: Duckworth, 1904. pp. 115-117
• Habich, Georg. "Die deutschen Schaumünzen des XVI. Jahrhunderts." 5 vol. Munich: Bruckmann, 1929-1934. pl. 38.2
• Flaten, Arne R., ed. "Medals and Plaquettes from the Middeldorf Collection." Bloomington, IN: University Art Museum, 1995. no. 27

• Europe
• Medals
• Vernon Hall Collection

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