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 Giovanni Bembo

Description: A portrait of Venetian Doge Giovanni Bembo (1543-1618) who reigned from 1615 to 1618. Bembo’s coat of arms features three five-petaled roses arranged in a triangle around a chevron. The coin on this page is Bembo’s 1616 osella. Its obverse (left) depicts the Doge humbly accepting the Venetian Republic’s banner from Saint Mark, as Bishop Leon Bembo (d. 1188) looks on from the background. The reverse (right) depicts the Doge kneeling in armor (foreground), Jesus holding a Venetian banner from the clouds above, a dove soaring in the heavens, and a galley sinking below. The mintmaster, Leonardo Vendramin, has his initials placed at the bottom of the obverse.

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