Medallion with the Emperor Augustus's Vision of the Virgin and Child

ca. 1420 (Late Medieval)

5.2 cm 6.1 cm 0.5 cm

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According to legend, the Roman emperor Augustus asked a prophetess if there was anyone greater than himself. It was the day of Christ's birth, and the answer came to the emperor in a vision: a golden circle around the sun, in the middle of which was a beautiful virgin and a c...

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The Honourable William Frederick Barton Massey-Mainwaring (28 May 1845 – 12 March 1907), 30 Grosvenor Place, London; with G. R. Harding, London; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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