The Metropolitan Museum of Art's own collection record for "John Calvin (1509 to 1564)," a silver commemorative medal by the German medallist Sebastian Dadler, dated 1641. The record gives the accession number 2023.569.194, a diameter of 2 3/16 inches, the classification Medals and Plaquettes, and the credit line Gift of The Mark and Lottie Salton Trust, 2021. Struck decades after Calvin's death, the medal belongs to the class of posthumous portrait medals that fixed and circulated a Reformer's likeness for later generations.
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PublisherMetropolitan Museum of Art
URLhttps://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/855731
Source TypeMuseum
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The holding museum's own catalogue record for the accessioned object, the strongest available record for its artist, date, medium and accession number, its own title directly naming Calvin with his birth and death years. Cross-Tradition Connections
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- Sacred Art & Iconography, 5 claims: 2 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.
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