Italy Silver Medal Charity and Minerva crowning Vulcan. After Renaissance designs EF

Italy. Undated silver cast allegorical medal — Charity and Minerva crowning Vulcan. After Renaissance designs.

Obverse: Charity seated, nursing an infant. Two children embrace to the left, while another child plays with a small dog to the right. Legend: CHARITAS OMNIA SVFFERT — “Charity bears all things”.

Reverse: Helmeted Minerva standing, holding a spear and extending a laurel branch above the seated Vulcan, who holds a hammer and examines a small portrait medal. Legend: ARTIBVS QVISITA GLORIA — “Glory acquired through the arts”.

A hybrid medal combining compositions originally used as reverses of separate Renaissance medals. The Minerva and Vulcan composition relates to Antonio Abondio’s medal of Jacopo da Trezzo. This pairing of designs is documented in the 1911 catalogue of the Lanna collection.

Catalogued within the Italian Renaissance medal tradition; the actual place and date of manufacture of this specimen remain undetermined.

With suspension loop.

Metal: Silver.
Weight: 23.4 g.
Diameter: 54 mm.

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