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DIVINE ANGEL MICHELANGELO HOMAGE MEDAL
DIVINE ANGEL MICHELANGELO HOMAGE MEDAL

DIVINE ANGEL MICHELANGELO HOMAGE MEDAL

$ 7.91

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
  • Modified Item: No
  • Type: Medal
  • Brand: french mint
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: France
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Circulated/Uncirculated: Circulated
  • Condition: see pictures
  • Item must be returned within: 14 Days
  • Restocking Fee: No
  • Composition: Tin

    Description

    Obverse
    :  bust of  Michelangelo & surrounding legend "michel piu che mortal angel divino" (transl :
    Michael, more than one mortal, a
    divine angel - a quotation from Ariost, Orlando Furioso, 33rd song
    )
    Reverse
    : "marguerite d'Angoulême"
    Diameter
    : 50 mm or 2 inches
    Weight
    : 26 grams
    Metal
    : tin
    This medal is a retrike after a famous 1875 medal for Michelangelo’s 400th birthday by Emilio Santarelli (1801-1886)
    Marguerite de Navarre (French: Marguerite d'Angoulême, 1492 –1549), also known as Marguerite of Angoulême and Margaret of Navarre, was the princess of France, Queen of Navarre, and Duchess of Alençon and Berry. She was married to Henry II of Navarre. Her brother became King of France, as Francis I, and the two siblings were responsible for the celebrated intellectual and cultural court and salons of their day in France. Marguerite is the ancestress of the Bourbon kings of France, being the mother of Jeanne d'Albret, whose son, Henry of Navarre, succeeded as Henry IV of France, the first Bourbon king. As an author and a patron of humanists and reformers, she was an outstanding figure of the French Renaissance. Samuel Putnam called her "The First Modern Woman".