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Michelangelo

(Italian, about 1509–1590)
after 1560
Medium/TechniqueMetal; bronze
DimensionsDiameter and weight: 56 mm, 70 gm (2 3/16 in., 2.47 oz.)
Credit LineSamuel Putnam Avery Fund
Accession number30.711
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ClassificationsNumismatics
Collections
InscriptionsInscribed at edge "MICHAELANGELVS BON[A]RROTVS FLORAES ANN" and on bust "I F O".
Provenance1930, bought by the MFA. (Accession Date: October 16, 1930)
Carlo Visconti
Leone Leoni
mid-16th century
Guillaume Dupré
1623
Francesco IV Gonzaga
Guillaume Dupré
1612
Francesco Redi
Massimiliano Soldani
1684
Leonello d'Este
Antonio Pisano (called Pisanello)
about 1440–50
Heraclius
Michelet Saulmon
about 1400
Christ and Saint Paul
about 1492–1500
Christina of Lorraine
Guillaume Dupré
1613
Guillaume Dupré
after 1612