Paolo Giovio, Historian and Prelate, Bishop of Nocera (obverse); Giovio Raising a Man from a Grave (reverse)

Francesco da Sangallo, Italian, 1494 - 1576

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1552

Bronze

Overall: 3 3/4 × 3 3/4 × 3/8 in. (9.5 × 9.6 × 1 cm)

Weight: 331 g (0.7 lb.)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Wallace D. Bradway, Class of 1947

2022.19.39

Geography

Place Made: Italy, Europe

Period

1400-1600

Object Name

Medal

Research Area

Sculpture

Not on view

Inscriptions

Obverse: PAVLVS IOVIVS COMENSIS EPISCOPVS NVCERINVS. A[nno] D[omini] N.S.M.D.LII Reverse: NVNC DENIQVE VIVES

Provenance

Lawrence R. Stack, before 2009; Sotheby's, "The Stack Collection: Important Renaissance Medals and Plaquettes," London, 9 December 2009, lot 189; sold to Wallace D. Bradway, New Haven, Connecticut, 2009; given to the present collection, 2022.

Catalogue Raisonne

Atwood 795

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