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Attributed to the workshop of Apolloni di Giovanni di Tomaso, Italian, said to come from the Palazzo Strozzi. The front panel depicts a battle at the city of Trebizond, Constantinople is at the upper left. The battle shows the fall of Trebizond to…

Cast bronze medal. Above, hands holding bag of money. Below, hand holding single coin.
Inscription: “If I weren't poor, you wouldn't be rich."
Bomb with lit fuse

Inscriptions
Obverse: UND DER ARME SAGTE BLEICH WAR ICH NICHT ARM, WÄRST DU NICHT…

The imposing cathedral of St Nicholas is located in the walled city of Ammochostos and dates to the 14th century. Its architecture mimics the cathedral in the French city of Reims. It was in this cathedral that the Frankish kings of Cyprus and…

The lip band features fifteen enamel plaques, however this configuration is not original. Christ and John the Baptist would have been placed together, opposite the Virgin Mary who is flanked by angels. The spaces between them would have been filled…