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Timoteo Maffei
Matteo de' Pasti (Italian, about 1420–after 1420)
Italian
Renaissance
possibly 1446
Place of Manufacture: Italy
Medium/Technique
Metal; cast bronze
Dimensions
Diameter and weight: 88 mm (3 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Martin Brimmer
Accession Number87.81
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsNumismatics – Medals
Catalogue Raisonné
Hill 159.
DescriptionCircular medal of Timoteo Maffei, canon of Verona.
Obverse: Profile bust of Timoteo Maffei looking to proper right, wearing a habit with raised hood; inscribed at edge "TIMOTHEO·VERONENSI·CANONICO·REGVL·DEI·PRAECONI·INSIGNI·".
Reverse: Dove of the Holy Spirit on a cloud with three ligthning bolts; inscribed at edge "MATTHAEI·PASTII·VERONENSIS·OPVS".
Obverse: Profile bust of Timoteo Maffei looking to proper right, wearing a habit with raised hood; inscribed at edge "TIMOTHEO·VERONENSI·CANONICO·REGVL·DEI·PRAECONI·INSIGNI·".
Reverse: Dove of the Holy Spirit on a cloud with three ligthning bolts; inscribed at edge "MATTHAEI·PASTII·VERONENSIS·OPVS".
InscriptionsObverse: Inscribed at edge "TIMOTHEO·VERONENSI·CANONICO·REGVL·DEI·PRAECONI·INSIGNI·".
Reverse: Inscribed at edge "MATTHAEI·PASTII·VERONENSIS·OPVS".
Reverse: Inscribed at edge "MATTHAEI·PASTII·VERONENSIS·OPVS".
ProvenanceBy 1887, Martin Brimmer; 1887, gift of Martin Brimmer to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 1, 1887)