In the past – as, in some cases, today – devotional medals or red coral necklaces and pendants as the one shown in portraits of Giovanni de Medici were used as protections from evil.

This shirt presents a collar called ‘a lattughe’ because of the thick ripples that characterize it. it follows a style that was very popular in the second half of the fifteenth century. The opening is outlined by a decoration that simulates a chain, on which hangs a medal with the Christological monogram.