Object Description
33 GIANFRANCESCO TRIVULZIO (1509-73), Marquess of Vigevano, Count of Mesocco (1519-49), Rheinwald and Stoss
Obv. Bust to right, in armor and cloak. Around, lO . FRAN . TRI . MAR . VIG . CO . MVSO . AC . VAL . REN . T . STOSA . D; on truncation, AET 39
Rev. Fortune on a dolphin on a sea full of swimmers and drowning people, four zephyrs around. Around, FVI SVM ET ERO
Bronze, aftercast, 57 mm.
The medal has been attributed to Galeotti. The sitter's age dates the medal to about 1548.
Bibl.: Arm. 2, p. 302,13 bis; Rosati, no. 212; Kress, no. 360a; Salton, no. 42; Habich, pl. 96, 5 (as Milanese); Supino, no. 673 (as Milanese); Forrer 2, p. 192 (ill.); Brescia i, p. 50, no. 329; Madrid, p. 232, no. 447; Tervarent, col. 145, 5 (Fortune and dolphin); G. F. Hill, A Guide to the Exhibition of Medals of the Renaissance in the British Museum, London 1923, p. 39 (as hardly in the style of Galeotti).