Title: Portrait medal of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (obverse); Il Gesù (reverse)
Object type: Medal
Date: 1575
Artist:  Giovanni V. Melon 
Artist bio: Italian, active ca. 1570–90
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Bronze (Copper alloy with a warm
brown patina).
Dimensions: Diam. 4.7 cm, wt. 34.51 g.
Classification: Medals
Credit line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Department: Robert Lehman Collection
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Churches, term: Men, term: Profiles