1903.22: Pope Innocent VIII (Giovanni Battista Cibo) (1432-1492)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1903.22

People

Unidentified Artist
After Georges Liard Sr., French (active 1895-1913)
After Antonio Pollaiuolo, Italian (Florence, Italy 1431 or 1432 - 1498 Rome, Italy)

Title

Pope Innocent VIII (Giovanni Battista Cibo) (1432-1492)

Classification

Medals and Medallions

Work Type

medal

Date

c. 1902

Places

Creation Place: Europe, France, Paris

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/232220

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Bronze

Technique

Cast

Dimensions

142.36 g, 8 cm (3 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: Innocentii Ianuensis VIII Pont[ificis] Max[imi] MCCCCLXXXIV [=Innocent VIII of Genoa, sovereign pontiff, 1484]; back: Iustitia Pax Copia [=Justice, peace, abundance]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Georges Liard, Sr., Paris, France, sold; to Horatio Greenough Curtis, Boston, Massachusetts, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1903.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Horatio G. Curtis

Accession Year

1903

Object Number

1903.22

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Fogg Art Museum, Charles Moore, and Horatio Greenough Curtis, Catalogue of Bronze Reproductions of Italian and French Medals of the Renaissance, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, c. 1903), p. 11

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