Lot 91: [ ITALIAN MEDALS ]

ERMES FLAVIO DE BONIS, called LYSIPPUS THE YOUNGER (active c. 1470-1484) Giovanni Alvise Toscani (c. 1450-1478), consistorial advocate, bronze medal, IOHANNES ALOISIVS TVSCANVS ADVOCATVS, bust left in round cap and gown, rev., in four lines PREVENIT AETATEM INGENIVM PRECOX within laurel wreath, 73mm (Hill 812; Armand II, 28, 11; Pollard 253 = Kress 221; Bargello 179; Johnson/Martini 298-300; Morgenroth 82; L.A. Waldman, 'The Modern Lysippus: A Roman Quattrocento Medalist in Context', in Scher, S. (ed.), Perspectives on the Renaissance Medal, 2000, p. 100, fig. 5.11), some light graffiti on the reverse, a very fine contemporary cast, with dark brown patina

The obverse and reverse are cast from a mould made after the cornelian intaglio in the Museo degli Argenti, Florence, attributed to Giuliano di Scipione (E. Kris, Meister und Meisterwerke der Steinschmiedekunst in der italienischen Renaissance, Vienna, 1929, p. 34, pl. XIX, 66)