Coins, Historical Medals & Paper Money

ITALY, Giovanna Albizzi, a bronze medal in the style of or attributed to N. di Forzore Spinelli, called Niccolò Fiorentino, bust right, hair tied up in a plait with ringlets over the cheeks, rev. the Three Graces named as Chastity, Beauty and Love, 80mm (Hill, Corpus 1021; Pollard [2007], 325; Kress 288; Scher, Currency of Fame, 45). An old cast, very fine and with smoothed edges £200-300

Giovanna married Lorenzo Tornabuoni of Florence in 1486 and died in childbirth in 1488. Her portrait is repeated as the central figure of the Three Graces with her back to the viewer