Jacopo Nizzola da Trezzo (c.1515-1589), bronze-gilt medal of Ippolita Gonzaga (1535-63), dated 1552, HIPPOLYTA GONZAGA FERDINANDI FIL AN XVII, bust three-quarters left, head in profile, signed below IAC TREZ, rev. VIRTVTIS FORMAEQ PRAEVIA, Aurora, holding torch and scattering flowers, in her chariot pulled by a winged horse above a landscape, 68mm. (Arm.I,241; Bargello III,722; Kress 438), pierced, the gilding slightly rubbed, very fine

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Jacopo Nizzola da Trezzo (c.1515-1589), bronze-gilt medal of Ippolita Gonzaga (1535-63), dated 1552, HIPPOLYTA GONZAGA FERDINANDI FIL AN XVII, bust three-quarters left, head in profile, signed below IAC TREZ, rev. VIRTVTIS FORMAEQ PRAEVIA, Aurora, holding torch and scattering flowers, in her chariot pulled by a winged horse above a landscape, 68mm. (Arm.I,241; Bargello III,722; Kress 438), pierced, the gilding slightly rubbed, very fine

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Ippolita Gonzaga is here described as the daughter of Ferdinand III, Duke of Mantua. At the age of 27 she was recently widowed, her first husband, Fabrizio Colonna having died in 1551. Two years later she married Antonio Carafa.