Object Description
225 FRANCESCO DA SANGALLO | HELENA MARSUPINA 1551
Obv. Bust to left. Around, FRANCESCO DA SANGALLO SCVLTORE ARCHIETTO FIOREN (English translation: "Francesco da Sangallo, Florentine sculptor and architect"); on truncation, FACIEB (incised) (English translation: "made [this]")
Rev. Bust of Helena Marsupina to left. Around, HELENA MARSVPINI CONSORTE . FIOREN . A.M.D.L.I. (English translation: "Elena Marsuppini, wife, Florentine, in the year 1551" - English translations as per Stephen Scher, The Currency of Fame: Portrait Medals of the Renaissance, First edition (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994), 174–76.
Bronze, 94 mm.
Bibl: Arm. i, p. 158, 7; Fabriczy, p. 142, pl. 29, 4; Forrer 5, p. 330, no. 7 (ill. pp. 324-25); Hill-Artists, p. 37, pl. 25; Morgenroth, no. 136; G. Clausse, Les Sangallo, 3 vols., Paris 1900-02, 3, pp. 235-37.