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Auction: 8004 - An Important Collection of Renaissance Medals & Plaquettes
Lot: 110

Venetian School (c.1500-1525) Fra Giovanni Cornaro, bronze medal, 43mm., an old cast with good relief, brown patina, rubbed on the highpoints on the reverse Obverse: bust of Cornaro left, tonsured, wearing Benedictine habit and hood, + IO · CORNELIVS · MONA - COR· CASIN · COLVMEN Reverse: ´The Good Shepherd´, carrying one sheep on his shoulders, herding his flock past a palm tree on which is a pelican in her piety, PIE TAS EVANGELICA Fra Giovanni Cornelio, or Cornaro, a Venetian Benedictine from the Abbey of Praglia, was Abbot of Santa Giustina at Padua 1507-1514. References Armand II, 70, 5; Bargello I, 126; Hill 527; Kress 168; Lanna 123 Estimate £ 300-500

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