Identifier: italiamedal00fabri (find matches)
Title: Italian medals
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Fabriczy, Cornelius von, 1839-1910
Subjects: Medals Medals, Renaissance Renaissance
Publisher: London : Duckworth
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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toexecute by Giangiacomos brother, Pope Pius IV. (finished in1563)- The masters work comprises over fifty pieces. Among them are depicted the foremost celebrities of the time : besides Charles V., already mentioned, his sister and wife, Philip II., Cardinal Granvella, Alfonso and Francesco dAvalos and Gonsalvo de Cordova (Governors of Milan), Pius IV., Titian, Pietro Aretino, Vasari, Bandinelli, Michael Angelo. The last-named medal (PI. XXXIX., 2) shows an entirely realistic conception of the old man of eighty-six, scarcely inferior in power to the Doria medal ; on the reverse—suggested by Michael Angelo himself—we see in a simple, well-arranged composition an old blind man led by his faithful dog. The document of March 24th, 1561, which the artist sent with four examples of his work to his immortal patron, still remains to us. The medal of the celebrated chancellor of Charles V., Cardinal Granvella (PI. XXXIX., 3), may complete our illustration of Leonis manner. 206 1 Plate XXXIX
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5 LEONE LEONI, JACOPO DA TKEZZO Fai\- J). 2o6 Padua and Milan Approximately at the same time, but certainly in a far lessfavoured position than Leoni, worked Jacopo Nizzola daTrezzo (1515-1587). Since he was distinguished not only as asculptor and medallist, but also and more especially as anengraver of gems, it is doubtful whether we can considerhim—as he has previously been considered to be—a pupil ofLeoni. His earliest medal (1548) is that of the Cremonesemilitary architect Gianello della Torre, who was in the serviceof Charles V. and Philip II. in the Netherlands and in Spainfrom 1550 onwards (PI. XXXIX., 4). In the vigorouslyhandled, life-like portrait Trezzo closely approaches the bestwork of Leoni ; the reverse is stylised in the spirit of theantique, and is not wholly uninfluenced by the art of MichaelAngelo. It represents the Fountain of Learning, whosestreams, springing from an urn on the head of a female figure,are caught and eagerly swallowed by those thirsting for kno

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