Portrait medal of Isotta degli Atti (obverse); An Elephant (reverse), Matteo de' Pasti, model 1446 or later

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Portrait medal of Isotta degli Atti (obverse); An Elephant (reverse), model 1446 or later (possibly cast 16th century), Bronze (copper alloy with a brown patina under a worn layer of dark brown wax), Diam. cm, wt. g., Medals, Matteo de' Pasti (Italian, Verona ca. 1420–after 1467 Rimini), A beautiful merchant’s daughter, the thirteen-year-old Isotta degli Atti inspired the passion of Sigismondo Malatesta, the ruler of Rimini. The date 1446 commemorates the year Sigismondo consolidated his political power and won Isotta as his mistress; she later became his wife

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