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FIg. 3 – VIennA (AusTRIA). old unIVeRsITy, Pilgrimage medal from Rome, dated 1623/54 (building horizon of the “Old
Aula”). Owner: Archaeological Department of the Federal Monuments Authority. © Peter Böttcher/Institute for Medi-
eval and Early Modern Material Culture, Krems/Austria.

2008) deals with the motif of “Santa Maria de Victoria”, which comes to light within the sam-
ple. After the battle of Lepanto (1571), it was elevated by Pius V as an image of protection
and grace, and, on the occasion of his canonisation under Clement XI in 1712, it was again
given great importance in view of new conflicts with the Turks. The article examines the
background to its creation and discusses the iconographic models.
This is followed by an extensive illustrated section (Luoghi e simboli del sacro a Roma
e in Europa tra Seicento e Ottocento. Galleria iconografica), which contains important
iconographic templates for the individual models of the collection and which is referred
to in the discussion (Documentation) of individual objects in volume 2 as well as in the
commentary to the catalogue of finds from the Crypta Balbi complex.
Finally, Daniele Valadà shows in his contribution that the Hamerani sample collection
can also be read as a kind of atlas through Catholic Europe, not only based on the pilgrimage
destinations represented in the collection, but also through saints who can be linked to spe-
cific pilgrimage routes or who are generally invoked for protection when travelling.
Volume 2, written by Serafina Pennestrì and comprising more than 400 pages, includes
the presentation of the models in the pattern book in a comprehensive and detailed manner.
The individual objects are reproduced with large-format illustrations, accompanied by de-
tailed descriptions. The arrangement does not follow the inventory number within the sample
collection, but the order begins with the signed pieces, arranged chronologically from Al-
berto Hamerani (ca. 1640-1677; nos 1-79), followed by Giovanni Martino (ca. 1668-1705; nos
80-155), Beatrice (1679-1704; nos 156-183), Ermenegildo (1683-1756; nos 184) and Giovanni
(1784-1846; nos 185-224) as well as the objects that can only be generally attributed to the
Hamerani workshop (1662-1849?; nos. 225-240, 241(?), 242-314), which are marked with the
Capitoline she-wolf. This is followed by a few individual pieces of Gaspare Mola and Fran-
cesco Travani, also included in the sample collection. More than 300 pieces of the objects
do not bear a medallion signature (nos 318-641), but it can be assumed that they are Hame-

Campionario delle medaglie devozionali K. e T. Kühtreiber

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