Medal: Girolamo Savorgnan or Savorniano

Fra Antonio da Brescia

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This is one of eight medals ascribed to the medallist Fra Antonio da Brescia, which depictws sitters from Padua, Treviso, Verona, and Venice. A portrait of Girolamo Savorgnan or Savorniano (1466–1529), defender of the city of Osopo for Venice against Emperor Maximilian I in 1513–14, decorates the obverse. On the reverse is a seated man holding a model of the city Osopo in his hand and being crowned by Victory. This specimen is a nineteenth-century aftercast.

Medal: Girolamo Savorgnan or Savorniano, Fra Antonio da Brescia (active ca. 1485–1525), Bronze, Italian, Venice

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Medal: Girolamo Savorgnan or Savorniano, Fra Antonio da Brescia (active ca. 1485–1525), Bronze, Italian, Venice
Medal: Girolamo Savorgnan or Savorniano, Fra Antonio da Brescia (active ca. 1485–1525), Bronze, Italian, Venice
Medal: Girolamo Savorgnan or Savorniano, Fra Antonio da Brescia (active ca. 1485–1525), Bronze, Italian, Venice
Medal: Girolamo Savorgnan or Savorniano, Fra Antonio da Brescia (active ca. 1485–1525), Bronze, Italian, Venice

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