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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.GregoriusXIII.165

Lorenzo Fragni, medal of Gregory XIII commemorating St. Peter’s Basilica with the design of Michelangelo on the reverse, 1584 (?), gilded bronze, 40.50 mm.

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At the end of 1546, when Sangallo died, the construction works had been entrusted to Michelangelo, whose design was celebrated only some years later, during the pontificate of Gregory XIII, on a medal bearing a significant reverse legend: SUPER HANC PETRAM.

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