About the Artwork
Philip II of Spain
19th century
Giovanni Paolo Poggini
1518-1582
Italian
Unknown
Electrotype (lead, surfaced with copper)
Overall: 1 5/8 inches (4.1 cm)
Medals
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Director's Discretionary Fund
59.316
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, in exergue: I. PAUL. POG. F.
Inscribed, on obverse, around edge: PHILIPPVS. D. G. ET. CAR. V. AVG. PAT. BENIGNIT. HISP. REX. 1557. Inscribed, on left of reverse: .VTQVIESCAT. Inscribed, on right: .ATLAS.
Marked, painted at lower left, on reverse: 59.316.
Provenance
(Alfred Spero, London, England)
1959-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Armand, A. Les Medailleurs Italiens des quinzieme et seizieme siecles, 3 vols. Paris, 1883, 1: 238, no. 1.
Habich, George. Die Medallien der Italienischen Renaissance. p. 118, pl. LXXX (80), no. 4.
Renaissance Works of Art from the Permanent Collection. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, October 26, 1982-January 2, 1983.
Pollard, J.G. Museo Nazionale del Bargello. Medaglie italiane del Rinascimento: Italian Renaissance Medals, 3 vols. Florence, 1984 - 1985, 2: 760 - 761, no. 402.
Darr, A. P., P. Barnet, A. Bostrom, with contributions by C. Avery... [et. al.]. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts, London: Harvey Miller Publishers, in assoc. with the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2 vols., II, cat. 278.
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after Giovanni Paolo Poggini, Philip II of Spain, 19th century, electrotype (lead, surfaced with copper). Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Director's Discretionary Fund, 59.316.
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