Portrait medal of Jacopo Antonio Sorra (obverse); A Nude Male Figure Shooting Arrows (reverse), Antonio Abondio, 1561

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Portrait medal of Jacopo Antonio Sorra (obverse); A Nude Male Figure Shooting Arrows (reverse), 1561 (possibly contemporary cast), Bronze (Copper alloy with a worn, dark, Diam. cm, wt. g., Medals, Antonio Abondio (Italian, Trento 1538–1591 Vienna), Antonio Abondio was an Italian medallist who achieved great success in the courts north of the Alps. Abondio appears to have left Italy first in 1565–6 for employment by the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II in Innsbruck and Ambras and by the Emperor Maximilian II

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