Medal — Medal of Pope Benedict XIV, Italy, c.1750
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
c.1750
Medal in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (museum number A.56-1965), made in Italy, dated c.1750. The museum's brief description reads: Medal of Pope Benedict IIV and Piazza of St.
Peter's, Rome; Medal, bronze, Italian, 18th cent, Otto Hamerani, 1750. Museum description: Medal, bronze. Obverse side, bust to right of Benedict wearing the Papal tiara and a cope with the inscription, BENED. XIV. PONT. MAX. IVR. Signed, HAMERANI. Reverse side, Piazza of St Peter's with part of its facade in perspective and the Papal palace behind. A trumpeting angel in the sky and the she-wolf Romulus and Remus in the foreground with the inscription, FLVENT.
AD. EVM. OMNES. GENTES; on the angel's scroll: IN SPLENDORE STELLARUM. The museum records it as Bronze, measuring Diameter 40 mm. These details come from the museum's own record; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.
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Historical context
This bronze medal depicts Pope Benedict to the right wearing the Papal tiara and a cope. On the reverse side there is an image of the Piazza of St Peter's with part of its facade in perspective and the Papal palace behind. A angel with a trumpet appears in the sky and in the foreground there is a she-wolf with Romulus and Remus. The reverse is a reworking of the design by Giovanni Hamerani for the 1675 Jubilee Medal of Clement X (A.44 -1965). Benedict XIV was Pope from 1740 to 1758.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Dimensions
- Diameter 40 mm
Technical characteristics
- Technique
- Bronze
- Place recorded
- Italy
Design
- Inscriptions recorded
- 'BENED. XIV. PONT. MAX. IVR.' [Signed] 'HAMERANI'; 'FLVENT. AD. EVM. OMNES. GENTES'; [on the angel's scroll] 'IN SPLENDORE STELLARUM'
Identification
- Museum object name
- Medal
- Museum object number
- A.56-1965
- Museum system number
- O312319
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
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