F. Rossi – Abstract

Guidubaldo II della Rovere was very much aware of the power of images and built up his own image with the collaboration of the intellectuals living at his court. The idea of a talented military man and of a prince of the arts was also communicated through the language of medallions and sumptuous armor. The main idea expressed is the question of Aristotelian equilibrium between the exercise of power and aspiration to virtue, by evoking war and at the same time Roman antiquity.