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Cast bronze medal portraying an unidentified Beatrice of Siena; inscription obverse:.BEATRICE DE SENA.; beaded border; on reverse a bundle of wheat and inscription: EX INANITUS REPLEO (I, having been emptied, refill); beaded border.

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Date

16th century (middle)

Location

Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art (Kress medals no. 319 A1056-319A)

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Bibliographic Citation

Hill & Pollard, Renaissance Medals from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, London 1967, p. 61 no. 319; a later cast is described in P. Attwood, Italian Medals c. 1530-1600, vol. I, p. 252 no. 494., vol. II, pl. 99

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