Medal with Michelangelo (verso)

The medal in lead represents on the other side an old man, with Michelangelo’s features, characterised with a stick, a rosary, a canteen and a old-fashioned dress, that allow to identify him with a pilgrim. The figure, blind, is being driven by a dog and around the margin of the medal there is an inscription taken from the Psalms (LI, 15): “DOCEBO INIQUOS V[ias] T[uas] ET IMPII AD TE CONVER[tentur]”. The reference to the blindness is a recurring theme in the last Michelangelo’s literary production.