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Medal Commemorating the Destruction of the Duke of Alba's Statue
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Small bronze coin with dense compositions on both sides. The recto features the statue of the third Duke of Alba, flanked by the figure of Icarus to the right. Above the statue is a piece of artillery. The verso displays God casting Lucifer out of Heaven.
Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
Roger Stoddard Cambridge MA Gift to the Harvard University Art Museums 2004.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Roger E. Stoddard in honor of Seymour Slive
Title: Medal Commemorating the Destruction of the Duke of Alba's Statue
Description:
Small bronze coin with dense compositions on both sides.
The recto features the statue of the third Duke of Alba, flanked by the figure of Icarus to the right.
Above the statue is a piece of artillery.
The verso displays God casting Lucifer out of Heaven.
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