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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.UrbanusVIII.112

Gaspare Mola, annual medal of the 10th year of pontificate of Urban VIII commemorating the inauguration of the Baldachin of St. Peter, 1633, bronze, 41.00 mm.

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After the first design of the Baldachin was rejected, Bernini submitted a second one which was definitively inaugurated on June 29th 1633 and represented on the annual medal of that year.