Marco di San Francesco / Agnus Dei Atop Mountain Work of Antonio Selvi, 1748. [IMG] Bronze, 86.9 mm Ø, 207.2 g Obverse: Bust of Marco di San...
Awesome!
The catalog @chrisild found is available to read for free online: https://archive.org/details/diemunzenundmeda00haus
Attached are images from Hill, and also the listing for the medal in Ulrich Pfisterer's book "Lysippus und seine Freunde" [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
It is listed in Hill's "A Corpus of Italian Medals of the Renaissance Before Cellini" as no. 809 I believe (I don't have the book in front of me now).
It's a medal of Giovanni Alvise Toscani attributed to the artist Lysippus the Younger. The reverse features Toscani's coat of arms. It's hard to...
Thanks for that! I had gotten the translation from the V&A catalog, but your post makes more sense. Long lost cousins?
These three cast medals are my first foray into the field of German Renaissance medals, previously having been focused only on Italian and French...
Henri II Attributed to Étienne Delaune, c. 1556. [IMG] Bronze, 53.8 mm Ø, 54.6 g Obverse: Bust of Henri II facing right, laureate, draped and...
Anton Maria Salviati / Weapons in Front of Walled City Work of Massimiliano Soldani-Benzi, 1713. [IMG] Bronze, 88.2 mm Ø, 229.5 g Obverse: Bust...
I heartily concur with this recommendation - the exhibit of medals (and one sestertius of Galba) at the Frick is spectacular. In a coincidence, I...
That's a lovely jeton - at least you've got an excellent image to remember it by.
Antonio Ottoboni / Triumphal Chariot Work of Giuseppe Ortolani, 1689. [IMG] Bronze, 73.5 mm Ø, 134.5 g Obverse: Bust of Antonio Ottoboni facing...
Indeed, the style of medals from back then is completely different than the coins of the era. Embarrassingly, I didn't even think of the 1492...
Nice JPII coins @Curtisimo ! I haven't seen the show, but the Borgias are certainly quite famous (infamous). Here's the other Borgia (Alfons de...
Pope Alexander VI / Coronation [IMG] Bronze, 45.9 mm Ø, 45.5 g Anonymous Roman artist, 1492. Obverse: Bust of Alexander VI facing left,...
Great post! It reminded me of this medal of the penultimate emperor John VIII Palaeologus in my collection: [IMG] It was created during his...
John VIII Palaeologus Work of Antonio di Puccio Pisano, called Pisanello, c. 1438-1439. [IMG] Lead, 101.6 mm Ø, 504.4 g Obverse: Bust of John...
This is interesting, since the Renaissance was basically over by 1600 (and over long before 1800) as the baroque era came along. Any reason why...
As @lordmarcovan pointed out, it is a Renaissance medal (or later cast thereof) from Mantua, c. 1510. The original medal was also cast, but the...
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