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Auction: 8004 - An Important Collection of Renaissance Medals & Plaquettes
Lot: 134

After Danese Cattaneo (c.1519-1573) Giovanni de´Medici, bronze medal, 57mm., a good old cast with brown patina, casting flaw below cloud on reverse Obverse: bare-headed bust in profile to left, wearing cuirass and cloak fastened at the shoulders, GIOVANNI DE MEDICI Reverse: thunderbolt issuing from a cloud, FOLGORE DI GVERRA Giovanni de´Medici (1498-1526), called delle Banda Nere. A medal was made on his death in 1526 and this version was commissioned by Cosimo I in 1546. References Armand II, 95, 8; Bargello III, 759; Kress 419a Estimate £ 200-300

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