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Medal of Isotta degli Atti da Rimini
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Medal of Isotta degli Atti da Rimini

medalist (Veronese, about 1420 - after 1467, Rimini)
Dateabout 1446
Place MadeVerona, Veneto, Italy, Europe
MediumBronze
Dimensions8.2 cm (3 1/4 in.)
ClassificationsMedals and Medallions
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberS15w33
eMuseum ID730861
EmbARK ObjectID11696
TMS Source ID883
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on view
Web CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
BibliographyNotesPaul Chevallier and Charles Mannheim. Catalogue des Objets d'Art et de haute curiosite Antiques, du Moyen-Age & de la Renaissance composant l'importante et precieuse Collection Spitzer (Paris, 13 April - 16 June 1893), possibly lot. 1363.
"Loans Recieved in 1908." Annual Report of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, 1908), p. 105.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 100.
“Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 6, no. 45 (7 Jul. 1963), pp. 1-2.
Frederick den Broeder. "Italian Renaissance Medals." Fenway Court (Jan. 1967), pp. 25-32, ill. 30. (perhaps by an assistant of Matteo de'Pasti)
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston: 1977), pp. 131-32, no. 163.
Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt. "Mrs. Gardner's Renaissance." Marks of Identity: New Perspectives on Sixteenth-Century Italian Sculpture. Fenway Court, vol. 23 (1990-1991), pp. 10-30, no. 3.
Stephen K. Scher. Currency of Fame: Portrait Medals of the Renaissance (New York, 1994), pp.64-76, no. 13.
Tanya Karpiak. "The medallic secrets of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum." The Medal (Autumn 2014), pp. 14-15.
MarksNotesInscribed (obverse): D. I S O T T A E A R I M I N E N S I
Dated (reverse): M. C C C C . X L V I .

ProvenanceNotesCollection of an unknown art dealer in Frankfurt, possibly Hess.
Purchased by the art collector Gustave Dreyfus, Paris from the dealer in Frankfurt for Isabella Stewart Gardner.
Isabella Stewart Gardner purchased from Gustave Dreyfus, Paris on 31 May 1893 for 1000 francs through Ralph W. Curtis (1854–1922), American painter and collector.
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Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier
1896
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Jacopo da Trezzo I
1554
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Leone Leoni
1548-1549
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Paul Manship
1915
(c) 2007 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
1880
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Pisanello
about 1441
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Anton Scharff
1893
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens
1897