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Mirandola
Modena (prov.)

Piazza della Costituente 32-34

Medaglioni ritratto di illustri italiani

Portrait medaillons of famous Italians

artist unknown
early 20th century

Mirandola / Medaglioni ritratto di illustri italiani

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Five medaillons with relief portraits.

Mirandola - Medaglioni ritratto di illustri italiani
cristoforo colombo
Christoforo Colombo / Christopher Columbus
(prob. Cogoleto, Republic of Genua, c. 1451 - Valladolid 1506), Italian explorer, who in Spanish service completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of America (see Background Information).
Mirandola - Medaglioni ritratto di illustri italiani
galileo galilei
Galileo Galilei
(Pisa 1564 - Arcetri 1642)
Italian polymath: astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician
(Wikipedia).

giovanni pico
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
(Mirandola 1463 - Firenze/Florence 1494)
Italian Renaissance nobleman and philosopher
(Wikipedia).

Mirandola - Medaglioni ritratto di illustri italiani
dante aligheri
Durante degli Alighieri, known as Dante
(Firenze 1265 - Ravenna 1321)
Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages
(Wikipedia).

raffaello sanzio
Raphael
(Urbino 1483 - Rome 1520)
Italian Renaissance painter and architect (Wikipedia).