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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2004.190
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Medal Commemorating the Destruction of the Duke of Alba's Statue
Classification
Medals and Medallions
Work Type
medal
Date
1574-1577
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Belgium, Antwerp
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/5521

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
3.9 cm diam. (1 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso: ITA VT LVCIFER EX SVMMO COELI HABITACVLO SPONTANEA ELATIONE DEIECTUS EST, SIC ALBANVS IN CASTRO ANT[VERPIEN]SI DIE 9A MENSIS IVNY 1574A IN TERRAM PROLAP[SUS] EST.
  • inscription: 1571, obverse: ICARVS VT LYMPHIS FVIT HAEC LIBAMINE MOLES FORNACI, HORRIBILEM POST CANIT ORE SONVM: ILLE QVOD AVDACI COEPIT GAVDERE VOLATV; HIC POPVLI FVSO SANGVINE LAETVS ERAT. / OMNIS QUI SE EXALTAT HVMILIABITVR. / MAT[THAEI] 23 LV[CAE] 14 ET 18 / ANNO 1571 MAY 19

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Roger Stoddard, Cambridge, MA, Gift to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2004.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Roger E. Stoddard in honor of Seymour Slive
Accession Year
2004
Object Number
2004.190
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Small bronze coin with dense compositions on both sides. The recto features the statue of the third Duke of Alba, flanked by the figure of Icarus to the right. Above the statue is a piece of artillery. The verso displays God casting Lucifer out of Heaven.

Publication History

  • Marisa Anne Bass, The Monument's End: Public Art and The Modern Republic, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ, 2024), pp. 44-45, fig. 16, pl. 8

Verification Level

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