Medal of the International Exhibition for Industry and Labour in Torino in 1911

Public Domain

Artist(s) / maker(s)

Johnson (workshop / studio)
,
Enrico Saroldi (medalists)

Date

1911

Period

20th century

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
On the obverse, this bronze award medal refers to the International Exhibition of Industry and Labour in Turin through the depiction of two men striking an anvil with a hammer, with the exhibition building in the background. The reverse shows a patriotic depiction of a naked man holding three upright rifles. He is accompanied by a winged angel and a…
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On the obverse, this bronze award medal refers to the International Exhibition of Industry and Labour in Turin through the depiction of two men striking an anvil with a hammer, with the exhibition building in the background. The reverse shows a patriotic depiction of a naked man holding three upright rifles. He is accompanied by a winged angel and a man holding a flag. The trio is surrounded by garlands of flowers.
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More about this work

Features
Artist(s) / maker(s) Johnson , Enrico Saroldi
Types award medal , commemorative medals
Category medals
Material
rond, brons, randinstempeling BRONZO
bronze AAT
Dimensions 59.7 mm
Location kunststof, inert, gesloten
Object number 1911-DX-1
Description
Subject figures (representations)
Tags crafts and industries Iconclass , heavy industry Iconclass , male sex; man Iconclass , adult man Iconclass , Labour Iconclass , working class, labourers Iconclass , tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries: hammer Iconclass , tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries: anvil Iconclass , collection, exhibition, show Iconclass , civic architecture; edifices; dwellings Iconclass , flags flown from a mast Iconclass , patriotism Iconclass , names of cities and villages (TURIN) Iconclass , angels Iconclass
Linked open data
Data PURL https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1911-DX-1
IIIF manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/8256/manifest.json
LIDO XML https://datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/oai/?metadataPrefix=oai_lido&verb=GetRecord&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:1911-DX-1

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