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Auction: 390 - Renaissance Plaquettes and Commemorative Medals featuring the Neil A. Goodman Collection - e-Auction
Lot: 159

ITALIAN (16th CENTURY)
Cornelio Musso (1511-1574), Franciscan, Bishop of Bitonto 1544. Medal. Bronze, 48mm. CORNELIVS MUSSVS EPS, Bearded bust left wearing hooded cassock, rev. .SVDAVIT ET ALSIT. ("He has sweated and shivered"), Draped, bearded man seated right holding an open book and pen, books and inkwell behind him, candlestick before. cf. Attwood 442a. Habich 125, Pl. XCV, 5. Kress -. Pierced. An Extremely Fine contemporary cast and perhaps the finest of published examples. Ex Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger, Sale 337 (Germany), February 8, 2018, lot 4393 [part].
From the Neil A. Goodman Collection

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