Portrait and Medal of Lorenzo Priuli

Book Title: Fasti ducales ab Anafesto I. ad Silvestrum Valerium Venetorum ducem cum eorum iconibus, insignibus, nummismatibus publicis, & privatis aere sculptis: inscriptionibus ex aula M. Consilii, ac sepulchralibus. Adiectae sunt adnotationes, ad vitam cuiusque principis, rerum, quae omissae fuerant; studio Ioannis Palatii ...

Author: Palazzi, Giovanni, b. 1640?

Image Title: Portrait and Medal of Lorenzo Priuli

Description: A portrait of Venetian Doge Lorenzo Priuli (r. 1556-1559). His coat of arms is divided horizontally into halves, and the bottom half contains a pattern of vertical stripes. Priuli died of plague and was buried at the Church of San Salvador. The medal on this page, Priuli’s 1556 osella, portrays Priuli humbly accepting the Venetian Republic’s banner from the seated Saint Mark. The reverse bears an inscription commemorating Priuli’s first year as doge.

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