Object Description
6 SIGISMONDO PANDOLFO MALATESTA 1450
Obv. Bust to left, laureate. Around, . SIGISMVNDVS PANDVLFVS MALATESTA . PAN . F . (English translation: "Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, son of Pandolfo" - as per Kress, Vol. 1,pg. 37)
Rev. View of facade of San Francesco, Rimini, based on Alberti's proposed reconstruction. Around, PRAECL . ARIMINI . TEMPLVM . AN . GRATIAE . V . F . M . CCCC . L . (English translation: "in the year of Grace 1450 in Rimini he dedicated this noble temple" - as per Kress, Vol. 1,pg. 37)
Bronze, 40 mm.
Specimens of this, the foundation medal of the Tempio Malatestiano, have been excavated in the walls of the castle at Rimini. Hill says this medal is after Pasti's model, but that he was not responsible for the casting. The church was dedicated in 1450 but never finished.
Bibl.: Corpus, no. 183 (as after Matteo de' Pasti); Arm. I, p. 21,17; Rosati, no. 31; Kress, no. 66 (as after Pasti) ; Morgenroth, no. 28; Habich, pl. 14, 2; Calabi and Cornaggia, no. 15, p. 44 (as anonymous Riminese artist); Naples, pp. 16-17; Supino, no. 33; Brescia i, p. 5, nos. 40-41 ; MM. I, p. 81, pl. 14,1 ; Tresor ltal. 2, pl. 3,4; Muenzen und Medaillen, Basel (auction catalog), 17, 2 December 1957, lot 88 (excavated specimen); C. Ricci, II Tempio Malatestiano, Milan/Rome 1924, chapter 10; C. Brandi, II Tempio Malatestiano, Turin 1956, pp. 14—20 (facade)
