| Savoca Numismatik GmbH & Co. KG > Online Auction 203 | Silver | Auction date: 24 March 2024 |
| Lot number: 661 Price realized: Unsold | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: Italy. Ravenna AD 1982-1983. Biennial of Ravenna Medal Æ 80 mm, 773 g DOLCIS-SIMO PATRE - 18.A.X BIMILLENARIO DELLA, face of Virgil / MORTE DI 1982D.X. - TU MI SEGUI ED IO SARO JIDA - CENTRO DANTESCO RAVENNA, face of Dante. Mint State, high relief For having revolutionized the concept of medal, Angelo Grilli in June 2015 was awarded in New York the highest international prize as best medal artist. Initiated at a very young age by his father to thie plastic arts, he attended the Pavia School of Art, then the Christin School of Art in Milan and finally the Cignaroli Academy in Verona. Already in 1950 he received his first recognition at the V International Biennial of Ravenna. From that place, his artistic career follows one another in national and international exhibitions and awards arriving until 2015 with the aforementioned prize in the United States. In addition to the numerous works of sculpture and ceramics, Angelo Grilli expresses himself with a wide production of medals where further to the great artistic plasticity that is his own and that distinguishes him, he also faces the technological limits of coinage. In fact, some of his medals reach a thickness of up to 40 mm remaining in the size of the rod less than 100 mm. Starting price: 460 EUR |  |
