Isotta degli Atti (after 1430-1474)

Collection of Count Trivulzio (Milan, Italy); after 1947, acquired by Vernon Hall (Madison, WI); 19 July 1977, 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. 35, no. 187
• Hall, Vernon. "Catalogue of the Vernon Hall Collection of European Medals." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1978. no. 50
• Armand, Alfred. "Les médailleurs italiens des quinzième et seizième siècles." 2nd ed. 3 vols. Paris: E. Plon et Cie, 1883-1887. I: p. 21, I: no. 19
• 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. 39-42, 147, cat. no. 10
• 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. 63
• 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. 33
• Scher, Stephen K. "The Currency of Fame: Portrait Medals of the Renaissance." exh. cat. New York: Harry N. Abrams in association with The Frick Collection, 1994. no. 13
• Johnson, Cesare and Rodolfo Martini. "Catalogo delle medaglie I. Secolo XV." Milan: Comune de Milano, Ripartizione cultura, 1986. no. 356
• Börner, Lore. "Bestandskataloge des Münzkabinetts Berlin: Die italiensichen Medaillen der Renaissance und des Barock (1450-1750)." Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 1997. no. 64
• Pollard, John Graham. "Medaglie italiane del Rinascimento nel Museo nazionale del Bargello." 3 vols. Florence: Associazione Amici del Bargello, 1984-1985. no. 49
• Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. "Medalhas do renascimento: Colecção Calouste Gulbenkian." Lisbon: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1979. no. 10
• Pasini, Pier Giorgio. "Matteo de'Pasti: Problems of Style and Chronology." In "Studies in the History of Art," vol. 21, "Italian Medals," edited by J. Graham Pollard, 143-159. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1987. pp. 149-150, fig. 7
• Luciano, Eleonora. "Diva Isotta and the Medals of Matteo de' Pasti." The Medal 29 (1996): 3-17. pp. 10-12, fig. 12

• Europe
• Medals
• Vernon Hall Collection

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