Baldwin's of St. James's
Auction 8 20 Sep 2017
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Commemorative Medals, Italy, Vatican, Alexander VIII (1610–1689-1691), Pietro Vito Ottoboni, The Pope's Monument, gilt-bronze medal, 1700, by Ferdinand de Saint Urbain, bust of the Pope l., in papal vestments, ALEXANDER . VIII . OTTHOBONVS . VENETVS . PONT . MAX., rev. elevation of the Pope's tomb in St Peter's, with group of admiring figures to the right, PETRVS. CARD. OTTHOBONVS. S.R.E. VICECANO PATRVO. MAG. BENEMERENTI. POSVIT, MDCC, 64.5mm. (Linc.1512; Ciech 264; Weber 361; Roma Resurgens 137; Venuti XXI; Miselli II, 287; Hall, II, 1188), extremely fine, the slightest rubbing to the gilding
The magnificent tomb was commissioned and paid for by the Pope's nephew, Cardinal Pietro Ottobone. Designed by Carlo Enrico Sanmartino (d. 1726), as stated on the exergual line, COM. CAROLVS. H-S. MARTIN. INVEN., and it was sculpted by Angelo de'Rossi and Giuseppe Bertosi. Work on the tomb commenced c.1696 but was not completed until 1725. Central to the group on the right a figure, believed to be Sanmartino, is seen holding open a plan of the tomb.
The Alan Irvine Collection of Historical and Artistic Medals (400-600 GBP)
The magnificent tomb was commissioned and paid for by the Pope's nephew, Cardinal Pietro Ottobone. Designed by Carlo Enrico Sanmartino (d. 1726), as stated on the exergual line, COM. CAROLVS. H-S. MARTIN. INVEN., and it was sculpted by Angelo de'Rossi and Giuseppe Bertosi. Work on the tomb commenced c.1696 but was not completed until 1725. Central to the group on the right a figure, believed to be Sanmartino, is seen holding open a plan of the tomb.
The Alan Irvine Collection of Historical and Artistic Medals (400-600 GBP)