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fme_489933 - JEAN VIII PALAIOLOGOS / PALAEOLOGUS Médaille postérieure, Jean VIII empereur de Constantinople

JEAN VIII PALAIOLOGOS / PALAEOLOGUS Médaille postérieure, Jean VIII empereur de Constantinople XF
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Price : 200.00 €
Type : Médaille postérieure, Jean VIII empereur de Constantinople
Date: n.d.
Metal : brass
Diameter : 103 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 356,9 g.
Edge : lisse
Coments on the condition:
Aspect poreux. Usure sur les points hauts

Obverse


Obverse legend : (LÉGENDE EN GREC) +ἸΩÁΝΝΗC • BACIΛEV̀C • KAÌ • ἈVTOKPÁTΩP • ῬΩMÁIΩN • Ὁ • ΠAΛΑIOΛÓΓΟC.
Obverse description : Tête du souverain à droite.
Obverse translation : Jean, roi et empereur des romains, palaeologue.

Reverse


Reverse legend : OPVS PISANI PICTOR - (LÉGENDE EN GREC).
Reverse description : L’empereur à cheval vers la droite. A l’arrière, un paysage montagneux.

Commentary


Cette médaille est une fonte postérieure d’une médaille de Pisanello. L’original, d’un diamètre de 103 mm, a été faite à Ferrare entre 1438 et 1439.
Pisanello, Antonio di Puccio Pisano, (1395-1455) est un artiste italien et fondateur de la médaille moderne.

Historical background


JEAN VIII PALAIOLOGOS / PALAEOLOGUS

(01/10/1421-10/31/1448)

John VIII, is the eldest son of Manuel II (1391-1423). Associated with the throne from 1421, he succeeded his father two years later, the latter retired to a monastery. All that remained of the Byzantine Empire was the city of Constantinople. He tried to get closer to the West and made several trips to Italy in order to get help to save the second Rome. In 1439, in the cathedral of Florence, the union of the two Churches, Roman and Greek, was pronounced. The Byzantines refused to be subordinate to Rome. When John VIII died in 1448, his brother, Constantine XI succeeded him. There were only five years left before the city fell into the hands of the Turks.

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