Plaster Coin Cast by Aurelio Mistruzzi, Italy, 1940s

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Plaster reproduction of an ancient coin is a work by Aurelio Mistruzzi, created in the 1940s. Cast of a medal … Read more Plaster reproduction of an ancient coin is a work by Aurelio Mistruzzi, created in the 1940s. Cast of a medal of the Papal States from 1833, Gregory XVI An.III Wishes of Peace. "Petri inopiam Chiristiani stipe svstentant" - Antiqua pietas revocata. 4,5 x 4,5 cm. Good conditions, edge slightly damaged. Aurelio Mistruzzi (Villaorba, 7 February 1880 – Rome, 25 December 1960) was an Italian sculptor and medalist. Born in Villaorba di Basiliano in 1880, he attended the Udine School of Art at the courses of the sculptor De Paoli. He then studied at the Academy of Venice and shortly after moved to Milan to attend evening courses at the Brera Academy held by Mazzucchelli and Pellini, impressionist sculptors. He then approaches the realist ways of Vela. In 1908, thanks to a scholarship, he was able to attend the School of Medal Art in Rome. In 1914 he obtained the important commission for the sculptural decoration of the Municipal Palace of Udine which he carried out in collaboration with Raimondo D'Aronco with monumental statuary groups dedicated to civil and political virtues (The victory of work, Work, Union and strength, Venice and Third Italy, Empire and Patriarchate). He also dedicates himself to private commissions, in particular to funerary statuary. This piece is attributed to the mentioned designer/maker. It has no attribution mark and no
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