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Dubia Fortuna (reverse)

16th century

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Antico

(Italian, c. 1460–1528)

Italy, 16th century

Bronze

Diameter: 3.7 cm (1 7/16 in.)

Gift of Cyril Humphris 1971.139.b

Location

117A Italian Renaissance

Description

The inscription DUBIA FORTUNA is generally translated as"doubtful fortune," and speaks to the vagaries of war.

Inscriptions

Inscription

DVBIA FORTV(n)A; signed on ground line: ANTICVS.

Provenance
Cyril Humphris, London.
Citations
Beltramini, Guido, and Davide Gasparotto. Aldo Manuzio: il Rinascimento di Venezia. Venezia: Marsilio,2016. Reproduced: P. 151, fig. 8
Szepe, Helena K. "L'Hypnerotomachia Polophili, l'avventura tra sogno ed erotismo stampata da Aldo Manuzio." In Aldo Manuzio: il Rinascimento di Venezia. Guido Beltramini, Davide Gasparotto, and Giulio Manieri Elia, 137-155. Venezia: Marsilio, 2016. Reproduced: P. 151, fig. 9
Exhibition history

Antiquity in the Renaissance. Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA (organizer) (April 6-June 6, 1978).

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