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Super Hanc Petram The Architectural Medals of the Vatican Basilica and the Homage of the Pilgrims to St. Peter

Md.Pont.AlexanderVII.139

Gaspare Morone-Mola, foundation medal created for the construction of St. Peter’s square VII, 1658-1660, bronze, 75.00 mm. 

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Between 1658 and 1660 another medal was cast and placed in the foundations during the various phases of construction of the colonnade. The reverse is almost identical to the first foundation medal. The difference consists in the fact that the engraver no longer represented a single fountain, but two placed in the transverse axis, in the center of the two curves of the colonnade.

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