Medaglia celebrativa, Vittorio Emanuele, Venezia

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The medal, a subjective and commemorative object, encapsulates images and words in a small space, reflecting the tastes and interests of past eras. Its artistic dimension, with carefully crafted iconography, makes it fascinating and significant for art history. Interpreting a medal requires complex analysis, considering the iconography, the legend and the complementarity between the obverse and reverse sides.

The medal constitutes a highly subjective testimony; it envisages a commissioner (almost always an individual or an association) who, autonomously, decides to celebrate or commemorate a certain event or character by playing on the very potential of this curious object, capable of assuming a strong evocative value made up of images and words concentrated in a minute space. So, apparently, nothing more partial and debatable; yet, paradoxically, extremely significant of a taste or interests that were once prevailing and are now perhaps completely forgotten or incomprehensible.Alongside this testi

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