Portrait medal of Battista Vigo da Rapallo or Baptista Romanus (obverse); a Hand Holding a Branch and a Surgical Instrument

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Portrait medal of Battista Vigo da Rapallo or Baptista Romanus (obverse); a Hand Holding a Branch and a Surgical Instrument, model ca. 1510 (later aftercast), Italian, Venice or Padua (?), Bronze (copper alloy with light brown, Diam. cm, wt. g, Medals, Little can be said of this medal’s place of fabrication or of the sitter, although the inscription on the obverse (M. BABTISTA RO. CHIRVRGICVS) indicates that he was a surgeon (Chirurgicus). Gaetano Avignone, who possessed this medal and published it in 1872, identified the sitter as Baptista Vigo da Rapallo, assuming that the RO in the inscription was a mistake for RA

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Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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