TWO MEDALS:
- A bronze biface medal with brown... Lot 35
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TWO MEDALS:
- A bronze biface medal with brown patina. Obverse: portrait in profile of Lucrezia Borgia (1480-1519) surrounded by the inscription: [LUCRETIA.ESTN.DE BORGIA.DUC.] : Lucrezia d'Este Borgia duchess. Reverse side of the portrait in profile of Alfonso I d'Este (1476 - 1534), duke of Ferrara, surrounded by the inscription: [ALFONSUS.ESTENSIS].
Italy, XVIth century
Diameter : 5,4 cm
(wear to the patina of both sides)
COMPARATIVES
- A medal representing Lucretia Borgia takes up the recto of our medal is preserved in the Louvre museum under the reference OA 10580
- A two-sided medal in bronze with golden patina. Obverse side with a profile portrait of Pope
Alexander VII (1599 - 1667) surrounded by the inscription [VATICANI TEMPLI AREA PORTICIBUS ORNATA ALEX VII PM] :
The square of the Vatican Basilica decorated with colonnades, during the great Pontificate of Alexander VII. Reverse of the frontispiece of the Vatican Basilica, the Obelisk, the two Fountains and the Portico with the inscription [FUNDAMENTA EJUS IN MONTIBUS SANCTIS]
After Gasparo Morone (active in the 17th century), Italy 17th century.
Diameter : 7,4 cm
(minor wear)
COMPARATIVE
- A medal similar to ours is kept at the Metropolitan Museum of New York under the reference 25.203.1
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