Virgilio Malvezzi, Politician (obverse); Swordsman Seated on a Plinth (reverse)
Sperandio di Bartolommeo de' Savelli, called Sperandio da Mantova, Italian, 1425 - 1495
1479
Bronze
Overall: 3 1/8 × 3 3/16 × 1/2 in. (7.9 × 8.1 × 1.3 cm)
Weight: 247 g (0.5 lb.)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Wallace D. Bradway, Class of 1947
2022.19.47
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Medal
Research Area
Sculpture
Not on view
Inscriptions
Obverse: VIRGILVS MALVITIVS BONON PATRIAE DECVS ET LIBERTATIS CVSTOS Reverse: MCCCCLXXVIIII; OPVS SPERANDEI
Provenance
Ferruzzi Antichita, Venice; sold to Wallace D. Bradway, New Haven, Connecticut, 16 April 1992; given to present collection, 2022.
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