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Cosimo I. 1536-1574 1563 Michelangelo Buonarroti, Artist, 1475-1564, gilt Æ Medal commemorating the artist's 88th birthday, 19th century cast after an original by Leone Leoni, cast 1561, Av.: · MICHAELANGELVS · BONARROTVS · FLO · R · AES · ANN - 88, draped bust to the right, Rv.: DOCEBO · INIQVOS · VT · (TE) · IMP II · AD · TECONVEP, Michelangelo in the guise of a blind man, holding water flask and staff, being led right by guide dog, in the winter of 1560, Michelangelo had passed to Leoni a commission for the construction of a funerary monument for Gian Giacomo Medici. As a token of his thanks, Leoni made the original that this piece copies, for which the Florentine artist personally sat model, min. korr. Kress vergl. 429 Pollard vergl. 500 (Original) 20.94 g. selten ss-vz
Cosimo I. 1536-1574 1563 Michelangelo Buonarroti, Artist, 1475-1564, gilt Æ Medal commemorating the artist's 88th birthday, 19th century cast after an original by Leone Leoni, cast 1561, Av.: · MICHAELANGELVS · BONARROTVS · FLO · R · AES · ANN - 88, draped bust to the right, Rv.: DOCEBO · INIQVOS · VT · (TE) · IMP II · AD · TECONVEP, Michelangelo in the guise of a blind man, holding water flask and staff, being led right by guide dog, in the winter of 1560, Michelangelo had passed to Leoni a commission for the construction of a funerary monument for Gian Giacomo Medici. As a token of his thanks, Leoni made the original that this piece copies, for which the Florentine artist personally sat model, min. korr. Kress vergl. 429 Pollard vergl. 500 (Original) 20.94 g. selten ss-vz