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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.IuliusII.3

Cristoforo Foppa, called Caradosso, medal of Iulius II commemorating the foundation of the new St. Peter’s Basilica with the design of Bramante on the reverse, 1506, bronze, 56.20 mm.

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By the end of 1506, Caradosso cast a second medal bearing the same type as the foundation medal to celebrate the beginning of the recontruction works of the new Basilica.