Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Gioacchino Francesco Travani, bronze medal of Pope Alexander VII, 1659, ALEXANDER VII PM PIVS IVST OPT SENENPATR GENTE CHISIVS MDCLIX, bust left, wearing mozetta and camauro, rev. MVNIFICIO PRINCIPI DOMINICVS IACOBATVS ET FERA MAMOR BENEFICII, Androcles and the lion in the Circus Maximus, 97mm. (Bonanni XXXX; Ciechanowiecki 255; Lincoln 1192; Molinari 96; Tocci-Worsdale 291; Varriano pp.98-99, no.79; Varriano-Washington pp.254-255, figs.11 and 12; Venuti XX), a good sharp cast with attractive brown patina, very fine

Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Gioacchino Francesco Travani, bronze medal of Pope Alexander VII, 1659, ALEXANDER VII PM PIVS IVST OPT SENENPATR GENTE CHISIVS MDCLIX, bust left, wearing mozetta and camauro, rev. MVNIFICIO PRINCIPI DOMINICVS IACOBATVS ET FERA MAMOR BENEFICII, Androcles and the lion in the Circus Maximus, 97mm. (Bonanni XXXX; Ciechanowiecki 255; Lincoln 1192; Molinari 96; Tocci-Worsdale 291; Varriano pp.98-99, no.79; Varriano-Washington pp.254-255, figs.11 and 12; Venuti XX), a good sharp cast with attractive brown patina, very fine

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Gioacchino Francesco Travani, bronze medal of Pope Alexander VII, 1659, ALEXANDER VII PM PIVS IVST OPT SENENPATR GENTE CHISIVS MDCLIX, bust left, wearing mozetta and camauro, rev. MVNIFICIO PRINCIPI DOMINICVS IACOBATVS ET FERA MAMOR BENEFICII, Androcles and the lion in the Circus Maximus, 97mm. (Bonanni XXXX; Ciechanowiecki 255; Lincoln 1192; Molinari 96; Tocci-Worsdale 291; Varriano pp.98-99, no.79; Varriano-Washington pp.254-255, figs.11 and 12; Venuti XX), a good sharp cast with attractive brown patina, very fine

Lot Essay

Commissioned by the Roman nobleman Domenico Jacobacci, this medal was a tribute to Alexander VII for his charitable help during an outbreak of the plague at Rome. For another example of this medal, and full details, see Spink auction, 21 May 1996, lot 186.

See also back cover illustration