The Count Emeryk Hutten-Czapski Collection | Italy, Abbondio Rezzonico (1741-1810), as Senator of Rome, AR Medal, 1766

The Count Emeryk Hutten-Czapski Collection | Italy, Abbondio Rezzonico (1741-1810), as Senator of Rome, AR Medal, 1766, by Antonio Pazzaglia, ABVNDIVS REZZONICO SENATOR VRBIS, bust right in senatorial robes, rev., CLEMENTIS XIII P M PATRVI ANNO VIII, Roma seated right among classical arms and a standard, MDCCLXVI below, 63.2mm, 81.20g (Voltolina 1579), sometime lightly cleaned with resultant hairlines, otherwise extremely fine and very rare

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Abbondio Rezzonico was a nephew of Pope Clement XIII, and was duly created Senator of Rome in 1766. There is a famous painting of him in senatorial robes by Pompeo Batoni in the Palazzo Barberini, Rome. Behind his portrait is the statue of Roma, similar to that shown on the present medal, which stands at the entrance to the Palazzo Senatorio on the Capitoline Hill

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