# Giovanna degli Albizzi Tornabuoni [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SPINELLI, Niccolò di Forzore]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Cast bronze, diameter 8 cm ## Commentary Giovanna degli Albizzi Tornabuoni c. 1486 Cast bronze, diameter 8 cm Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen, Berlin The sitter for this medal is identified by an inscription: she is Giovanna degli Albizzi \(1468-1488\), wife of Lorenzo Tornabuoni \(1468-1497\). The medal was commissioned for the marriage of the couple in the summer of 1486. The medal is one of nearly twenty extant portrait medals of young women attributed to Niccolò di Forzore Spinelli, who immortalised the city's elite in ennobling profile and costly bronze. It exemplifies Florentine medallic portraits of women toward the end of the fifteenth century. Complementing the lovely visage of the sitter, the reverse presents the Three Graces, who stand on a plinth, side by side, with arms interlocked. Giovanna also appears in Domenico Ghirlandaio's fresco of the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/g/ghirland/domenico/6tornab/62tornab/2visita3.html'\)" href="/html/g/ghirland/domenico/6tornab/62tornab/2visita3.html">Visitation</a> in the Tornabuoni Chapel of Santa Maria Novella and in a <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/g/ghirland/domenico/7panel/07tornab.html'\)" href="/html/g/ghirland/domenico/7panel/07tornab.html">panel portrait,</a> now in Madrid. ## Related artworks - [Angelo Poliziano]() - [Filippo Strozzi]() - [Girolamo Savonarola]() - [Lorenzo de' Medici]() - [Portrait of Lodovico Luti of Siena]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()