Pietro Barbo, Cardinal of San Marco, afterwards Paul II (obverse); Shield with Barbo Arms (reverse)
Unknown Roman
about 1455
Bronze
Overall: 1 5/16 × 1 5/16 × 3/16 in. (3.4 × 3.4 × 0.5 cm)
Weight: 27 g (0.1 lb.)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Wallace D. Bradway, Class of 1947
2022.19.35
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Medal
Research Area
Sculpture
Not on view
Inscriptions
Obverse: PETRVS BARBVS VENETVS CARDINALIS S[ancti] MARCI Reverse: HAS AEDES CONDIDIT ANNO CHRISTI MCCCCLV
Provenance
Ruth and Leopold Blumka, New York, New York; Sotheby's, "European Works of Art from the Private Collection and Gallery of the Blumka Estate," New York, 10 January 1996; sold to Wallace D. Bradway, New Haven, Connecticut, 1996; given to present collection, 2022.
Catalogue Raisonne
Kress 206; Hill 737
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