File:Redenti - Girolamo Fracastoro.jpg

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Girolamo Fracastoro
Artist
Francesco Redenti 1820-1876.
Title
Girolamo Fracastoro
Description
Line engraving by Francesco Redenti after a bronze medal. The medal in question is almost certainly the medal of Fracastoro, cast by his friend Giulio della Torre c.1538?, Bronze, diameter 7.1 cm, now in the Museo Correr, Venice. (J. Dunkerton et al., Burlington Mag., 2013, vol CLV: 4-15, fig. 16); another photograph of this medal:[1]. Both sides of this medal in approx. original size are depicted in this engraving..
  1. Albert Ilg:Eine Büste des Girolamo Fracastoro. - In: Jahrb. der Kunsthist. Sammlungen des Allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses, Bd. 5, 58-64, Wien 1887
Medium engraving
print in the collection of the Wellcome Library
Current location
Iconographic Collection 1027.5
Accession number
.b11662694
Credit line Wellcome Library no. 3120i
Inscriptions Girolamo Fracastoro Da un medaglion in bronzo, signature
References R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 1027.5
Source/Photographer Wellcome Library Record no. 3120i
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Frontispiece: Scritti inediti di Girolamo Fracastoro, a cura di F. Pellegrini, Verona, Edizioni Valdonega 1955

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