Medal commemorating the Treaty of Münster
Also titled Penning op de Vrede van Munster
Johannes Lutma (1584-1669) (Emden, 1584–1669)
1648
- Medium
- silver (metal)
- Classification
- medal
- Dimensions
- diameter 7.3 cm x thickness 0.4 cm x weight 98.45 g
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of J.M. van Gelder-Nijhoff
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
‘A single peace is better than countless victories,’ reads the Latin inscription on the medal that Amsterdam had struck to commemorate the Treaty of Münster. The city anticipated a new era of prosperity and wealth. Goldsmith Lutma thus had free rein to create a very special medal. The gold medals were for the city councillors, the silver ones were presented as gifts.
