Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Aurora / In chariot / Miscellaneous
Pegasus / Allegories

PORTRAITS

Aristocrats / Italy / Gonzaga / Eleonora of Austria, wife of Guglielmo I (1534-1594)

Further details

Cast bronze medal; the reverse does not belong with the obverse and is by Jacopo da Trezzo; inscription obverse: LEONORA DVCISSA MANTVAE; signed on truncation, incised: .P. 1561; on reverse Aurora, standing in a charriot pulled through clouds by Pegasus; inscription: VIRTVTIS FORMAEQ PRAEVIA

Artist or creator

Pastorini, Pastorino de' (c1508-1592)

Date

1561

Location

London, British Museum (Dept. of Coins and Medals) (BM. George III Mantua M 17)

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Project

Corpus of Medals

Bibliographic Citation

P. Attwood, Italian Medals c. 1530-1600, London 2003, v. I, p. 271, no. 605a

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Web resources

British Museum database

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’

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