Object Description
98 ALEXANDER VII Chigi 1662
Obv. Bust to left, wearing cope decorated with Christ carrying the cross and tiara. Around, ALEX . VII . PONT . MAX . A . VII . ; below truncation, 1662
Rev. Church of Santa Maria dell'Assunzione, Ariccia. Around, * BENE . FVNDATA . DOMVS . DOMINI * ; below, on scroll, B . VIRGINI ARICINORVM PATRONAE .
See no. 99 for a different reverse.
Bronze, old aftercast, 65 mm. Diagonal casting crack on reverse
Foundation medal. Alexander VII commissioned Bernini to design the Chiesa dell' Assunta in Ariccia. The first stone was laid in 1662 and the church was completed in 1665.
Bibl.: Venuti, p. 267, no. 34; Bonnani, pp. 694-95, no. 36; Tresor Papes, pl. 33, 6; Dworschak, pl. 3, no. 4.
