IDENTIFIERS
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id:	227225
accession number:	CM.219-1909

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Friday 14 June 2019
updated:	Friday 10 December 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: A probable copy of a medal that was modelled in Rome in 1560 and cast Milan. Leoni sent Michaelangelo two silver and two bronze copies. He cleaned and boxed one specially, writing ‘keep it and look after it for love of me’. Apparently Michelangelo was pleased with the medal and in gratitude he gave him a wax model of Hercules and Antaeus, now lost. The medal was widely distributed, and the portrait frequently copied. The inscription, however, is wrong: Michelangelo was then 85 not 88.
title:	Italy

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Coins and Medals

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/227225





CATEGORIES
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category: medal

DATING
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creation date:	1561 - 1561
creation date earliest:	1561
creation date latest:	1561

CREATORS
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maker: Leone Leoni (c.1509-1590)

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: mm
value: 57

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 30.17



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