Medal - Hermitage Leningrad Crouching Boy

Features

Location Soviet Union (Russia)
Period Soviet Union (1922-1991)
Type Souvenir medals › Art medal
Composition Steel
Weight 99.83 g
Diameter 69.7 mm
Thickness 5.6 mm
Shape Round
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
154409

Obverse

The image of the sculpture.
Crouching Boy is a sculpture of the great Renaissance Italian painter and sculptor Michelangelo, preserved today at the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, it is the only work by Michelangelo in the Hermitage Museum.

Reverse

Lettering: ЭРМИТАЖ•ЛЕНИНГРАД

Translation: Hermitage - Leningrad

Edge

Smooth

Mint

Saint Petersburg / Leningrad / Petrograd, Russia (1724-date)

Comments

The Crouching Boy is a 54 cm marble sculpture and shows a boy, naked and turned in on himself, perhaps pulling out a thorn from his foot. Even if the statue is not well finished, facial features, hair and body shapes are easily recognizable.

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