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Charging Bull with Cut Horns [reverse]

1567

Pier Paolo Galeotti

Medalist, Florentine, c. 1520 - 1584

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Artwork overview

Medium

gilded bronze
Credit Line

Eugene L. and Marie-Louise Garbáty Fund
Dimensions

overall (diameter): 4.21 cm (1 11/16 in.)
Accession

2006.82.1.b

Cosimo I de' Medici, 1519-1574, Duke of Florence 1537 [obverse]

Pier Paolo Galeotti

1567

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(David Wille, Zurich); purchased 11 July 2006 by NGA.

Associated Names

Wille, David

Inscriptions

around circumference: IMMINVTVS.CREVIT.

Wikidata ID

Q63864340

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