Medal: Self-portrait, model ca. 1566 or 1571 (cast 18th or 19th century), Bronze (Copper alloy with chocolate, Diam. 7.8 cm, wt. 119.31 g., Medals, Alfonso Ruspagiari (Italian, Reggio Emilia 1521–1576 Reggio Emilia), The obverse shows a half-length, frontal self-portrait with the sitter’s head turned left and holding a syrinx in his right hand; the reverse is incused. This very painterly medal could have been made at the occasion of Ruspagiari’s appointment as superintendent of the mint at Reggio nell’Emilia in 1571
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Medal, Self-portrait, model ca, 1566, 1571, cast 18th, 19th century, Bronze, Copper alloy, chocolate, Diam, 7.8 cm, wt, 119.31 g, Medals, Alfonso Ruspagiari, Italian, Reggio Emilia, 1521–1576, obverse, half-length, frontal self-portrait, sitter, head, turned, left, holding, syrinx, right hand, reverse, incused, painterly medal, occasion, Ruspagiari, appointment, superintendent, mint, nell’Emilia
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