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1966.130.12.b

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Nicolas Duodo

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Artist

Giuseppe Ortolani (Venice, 1674 - 1734)

Title

Nicolas Duodo

Creation Date

n.d.

Century

17th-18th century

Dimensions

2 in. (5.1 cm.)

Classification

Medals/Plaquettes

Creation Place

Europe, Italy

Medium and Support

bronze

Credit Line

Gift of Amanda Marchesa Molinari

Copyright

Public Domain

Accession Number

1966.130.12.b

Object Description

113 NICOLAS DUODO, Venetian Ambassador at Rome

Obv. Bust to left, in peruke. Around, NICOLAVS . DVODO . COMES . ET . EQ . ; on truncation, lO . ORTOL . F .
Rev. Stairway, flanked by chapels, leads from town below to church at left, to church and other buildings at upper right; in background, town on a hill. Around, ROMANIS . BASILICIS . PARES .
Bronze, struck, 51 mm.

Rizzini (Brescia i, p. 164, no. 1100) mentions that a specimen of this medal is noted by Wesener in the catalogue of the Carlo Morbio Collection, sold at Munich, 16 October 1882. For the Ermenegildo Hamerani version of this medal, see no. 122.

Bibl.: Thieme-Becker 26, p. 67 (specimen in Padua).