Italy

Italy, Girolamo Querini (1461-1543), Venetian Senator, a cast bronze Renaissance medal, by Andrea Spinelli, bearded and robed bust left, rev. Saint Jerome in the desert, kneels before a crucifix, a lion at his side, 38mm (P. Attwood, Italian Medals, c. 1530-1600, no 210; Voltolina I, 320; Armand I, p. 154, 2; Trésor Numismatique, Italy, II, pl XXI, 5). A contemporary cast from a struck original, very fine and very rare. Andrea Spinelli (1508-1572) was born in Parma but was principally active in Venice. He used the same reverse with Saint Jerome for the medal of another Senator, Girolamo Zane.