Lot 153: [ ITALIAN MEDALS ]

GIOVANNI DA CAVINO (1500-1570) Goro Gualtieruzzi, bronze medal, GORVS GVALTIERVTIVS, head left with short beard, rev., PATAVIVM (Padua), a female figure with wind-blown ribbons at her back, clinging to the mane of a galloping horse to restrain it, 37mm (Voltolina 419, this piece; Toderi/Vannel 942, this piece; Armand I, 181, 18; Bargello 766; Lawrence 95), a contemporary striking, very fine with brown patina

Provenance: The Serenissima Collection, Arsantiqva, London, 19 April 2002, lot 147; The Estate of John R. Gaines, Morton & Eden, 21 April 2005, lot 15. This very rare medal (which is missing for instance in the extensive collection of Cavino medals in Milan) depicts Goro (Gregorio) Gualtieruzzi, an intellectual of the humanist circle in Padua and an executor of the estate of Pietro Bembo in 1547.