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Auction: 390 - Renaissance Plaquettes and Commemorative Medals featuring the Neil A. Goodman Collection - e-Auction
Lot: 36

SCHOOL OF FRANCESCO RAIBOLINI, called FRANCIA (ca. 1450-1517)
Giacomo Bovi (1455-1522). Medal, Bologna early 16th Century. Uniface. Bronze, 126mm. IACO:BOVIVS:IVRE:CONS:BONON:EQ:AC:ALMAE:VRB SEN, Bust in profile left wearing academic gown, chain and hat. Bovi was a professor of law at Bologna from 1482 until his death in 1522. According to Hill: "an inscription commemorating his services as a Roman senator under Leo X was put up by the Romans on the Capitol in 1513." Considering the medal's legend, it may date to this time. Armand II, 116, 44 (124mm); Hill Corpus 611; Mazzucchelli I, XXXIX-1. An Extremely Fine old cast. Ex Artemide Aste (Vienna), "Antiquities 4 Wunderkammer", March 19-20, 2016, lot 187.
From the Neil A. Goodman Collection