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Auction: 390 - Renaissance Plaquettes and Commemorative Medals featuring the Neil A. Goodman Collection - e-Auction
Lot: 19

GIOVANNI DI SALVATORE FILANGIERI DI CANDIDA (ca. before 1450-1498/9)
Giulano della Rovere (1443-1513), Bishop of Ostia and Cardinal of San Pietro (later Pope Julius II), and Clemente della Rovere (d. 1504). Medal, (Avignon?) ca 1494/5. Bronze, 61mm. IVLIANVS EPS OSTIEN CAR S P ADVINCVLA, Bust right, tonsured and wearing rochet, rev. CLEMENS DE RV-VERE EPS MIMATEN, Bust right, tonsured and wearing rochet. Hill Corpus 843; Pollard NGA 262; Currency of Fame 38; Scher 85. Giuliano took refuge in France from 1494 to 1498 after he fled Italy following an attempt to depose Pope Alexander VI. His brother Clemente was Papal vice-legate in Avignon. Graffiti (inverted E) on Clemente's cheek. A Very Fine old cast.
From the Neil A. Goodman Collection

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$700