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MARCO MANTOVA BENAVIDES 1489-1582
Bronze medal with a reclin…
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495
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MARCO MANTOVA BENAVIDES 1489-1582
Bronze medal with a reclin…
See original version (French)
Estimate €180 - €200
Voluntary lot
Description
MARCO MANTOVA BENAVIDES 1489-1582
Bronze medal with a reclining ox, undated (1545). (218.54 g; Ø 84 mm).
♦ Armand I, p. 248, 1
Engraver: Martino of Bergamo.
Later cast. Retouched blanks. Black and brown patina. Very beautiful.
Marco Mantova Benavides. Italian humanist, jurist and collector, born in Padua on 25 November 1489 and died in the same city on 2 April 1582 (aged 92). His family was of Spanish origin, first settling in Mantua in the 13th century before moving to Padua in the 14th century. The family was ennobled in the early fifteenth century. He was the son of Giovani Pietro Benavides, a doctor, and Lucrezia.
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