Sigmund Morgenroth Collection of Renaissance Medals and Plaquettes
Italian (North Italian), last half 16th century
An oval medal with the profile view of Christ looking to the left. The fine lines surrounding Christ’s head depict a halo and he wears the Crown of Thorns. On the reverse, three figures are depicted. Christ is in the center and two women on either side are present. The three seem to be interacting with cloth.
Girolamo Scotti, Sorcerer, Alchemist, and Adventurer of Piacenza
An oval medal with the bust of Girolamo Scotti, a bearded man dressed in fine Renaissance attire including a high, stiff collar and hat. Text appears on both sides of the bust: EFIG: HIERONIMI on the left and SCOTTI PLACEN on the right.
Michael Peterle of St. Annaberg, Printer in Prague
A circular medal with the profile view of Michael Peterle of St. Annaberg looking to the right; the man is bearded and wears fine attire. Text surrounds the parameter of the medal. On the reverse is a depiction of Minerva seated and surrounded by her various emblems including the owl and the shield. The text above her image reads VENERANDA MINERVA.
Johann Rudolf Blumnecker, Austrian nobleman
A circular medal with a profile view of Johann Rudolf Blumnecker, a bearded man dressed in fine attire looking to the left.; text encompasses the parameter of the medal. There is a hole at the top center that was most likely used to display the medal.
S. Carlo Borromeo, Cardinal and Archbishop of Milan
Italian (Milanese), last half 16th century
Pietro Bembo of Venice, Cardinal and Humanist
REV: The Fountain Hippocrene starting under the hoofs of Pegasus
Georges Castriot, Prince of Albania
Pietro Aretino, Il Divino, of Arezzo
CATTANEO, Danese (After)
Giovanni de' Medici (della Bande Nere), Condottiere
BELLI, Valerio (VICENTINO)
Giovanni de Nores, Count of Tripoli
Elvira, Daughter of Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordova
Diva Faustina Pia, Wife of Emperor Marcus Aruelius
Giovanni Boccaccio of Certaldo, Florentine poet
Sebastiano Salvini, Florentine Theologian
Alessandro Pagagnoti of Florence
Fra Girolamo Savonarola of Ferrara, Dominican Preacher
FIORENTINO, Niccolo (SPINELLI, Niccolo di Forzore)
Giovanni di Francesco Tornabuoni, Florentine Banker
Stefano Taverna, Secretary to the Duke of Milan
Camilla Buondelmonti of Florence
Giovanni Paolo Orsini, Count of Atripalda
Marsilio Ficino, Florentine Humanist
Jean du Mas, Chevalier de L'Isle, Counsellor of Charles VIII
Girolamo Ridolfi of San Gimignano
Innocent VIII (Giambattista Cybo of Genoa), Pope
Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary
Lorenzo de' Medici, Il Magnifico
Cosimo de' Medici, Pater Patriae
Italian (Florentine), last half 15th century
Domenico Grimani of Venice, Cardinal
CANDIDA, Giovanni (CANDIDA, Filangeri di?)
Thomas Bohier of Issoire, Baron de Saint-Ciergue
Nicolas Maugras, Bishop of Uzes
REV: Mary of Burgundy, Maximilian's Wife
Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy
Giuliano della Rovere (Pope Julius II)
Sixtus IV (Francesco della Rovere of Albissola), Pope
Paul II (Pietro Barbo of Venice), Pope
Italian, active from 1456; died before 1476
Guillaume D'Estouteville of Normandy
On the rim front side of medal: PPP E SEMPER AUGUSTUS VIR CAESAR IMPERATOR PONT
GUACIALOTI, Andrea (GUAZZALOTTI)
Calixtus III (Alfonso Borgia of Spain), Pope
Alfonso II of Aragon, Duke of Calabria
Niccolo Palmieri of Sicily, Bishop of Orte
MEDALIST OF THE ROMAN EMPERORS
CARADOSSO (FOPPA, Cristoforo)
Niccolo Orsini, Count of Pitigliano and Nola
Julius II (Giuliano della Rovere of Albissola), Pope
Lodovico Maria Sforza, Il Moro, Seventh Duke of Milan
Francesco I Sforza, Fourth Duke of Milan
Ulisse Musotti, Jurist of Bologna
Giovanni II Bentivoglio, Lord of Bologna
Niccolo Di Marco Giustiniani, Venetian Merchant
Sabastiano Di Jacopo Renier of Venice
Vincenzo Di Andrea Malipiero of Venice
BRESCIA, Fra Antonio da
Mohammad II, Sultan of the Turks
Italian, active 1454 - 1475; died before 1477
DELLA MONETA, Antonello (GRIFO, Antonello; DI PIETRO, Antonello)
Cristoforo Moro, Doge of Venice
Pasquale Malipiero, Doge of Venice
Giuliano della Rovere, Cardinal, later Pope Julius II
Bartolommeo della Rovere, Bishop of Ferrara
Bartolommeo Pendaglia, Merchant of Ferrara
Andrea Caraffa, Count of Santa Severina
Jacopo Sannazaro, Poet in Naples
MARTINI, Francesco Di Giorgio
Borghese Borghesi, Jurist of Siena
ENZOLA, Gian Francesco (PARMENSIS)
Niccolo Forteguerri of Florence or Venice