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Patron of the Michelangelo’s "Last Judgement"

210, Lot: 365. Estimate $100.
Sold for $252. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Papal Medals. Paul III (Alessandro Farnese). 1534-1549. Æ Medal (40mm, 28.46 g, 12h). Alesandro Croate, engraver. Dated year 16 (1549). (star) PAVLVS · III · PONT · MAX · AN · XVI ·, bust right, wearing mantum; trefoil stops / ΦEPNH · ZHNOΣ, Ganymede standing slightly left, head turned downward, pouring liquid from jug; to right, eagle standing right, head left, with wings spread; EYPAINEI in exergue. Mazio 52; Lincoln 498; DDL pl. VII, 8. Near EF, holed.


From the Luparello Collection.

One of the few Popes to have fathered children before his election, Paul III was also the first Pope to understand the threat which was posed by the Reformation, on account of which he began a Counter-Reformation. He officially recognized the Jesuits, known as the Society of Jesus and commissioned the painting of the Last Judgment by Michelangelo.