Redenti - Girolamo Fracastoro - Public domain portrait engraving

Line engraving by Francesco Redenti after a bronze medal. The medal in question is almost certainly the medal of Fracastoro, cast by his friend Giulio della Torre c.1538?, Bronze, diameter 7.1 cm, now in the Museo Correr, Venice. (J. Dunkerton et al., Burlington Mag., 2013, vol CLV: 4-15, fig. 16); another photograph of this medal:[1]. Both sides of this medal in approx. original size are depicted in this engraving..

↑ Albert Ilg:Eine Büste des Girolamo Fracastoro. - In: Jahrb. der Kunsthist. Sammlungen des Allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses, Bd. 5, 58-64, Wien 1887