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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, and about ten more which are ascribedto him. Appointed die-engraver to the Grand-Duke in 1556,he was employed not only as such, but also repeatedly assculptor and decorator for festivals, in the latter capacityespecially in the marriage ceremonial of Francesco, the suc-cessor to the throne, and Joanna of Austria in the year 1565.As examples of his medals, we give that of Cosimo I., struckin 1561 (PI. XXXV., 2), as well as a second of Francesco(PI. XXXV., 4), which, since its reverse bears the portrait ofhis young wife, must have been produced soon after 1565. Inthe dry precision of the treatment of both portraits we perceiveonly too plainly that, while engaged on them, the artist keptthe intention of making them serve for the dies of coins onlytoo exclusively before his eyes. That he was capable of amuch freer, more artistic conception is shown by his castmedals, of which, since it has entirely preserved the impress of the gifted improvisation of the wax model, we reproduce that 180
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Medals of the Medici of the celebrated historian Benedetto Varchi (PI. XXXV., 5).Poggini spent the last five years of his life in Rome as Masterof the Papal Mint. To this period belong the ten medals ofSixtus V. (PI. XXXV., 6), of the Popes sister, and of NiccoloTodini, the Governor of S. Angelo ; the last with an originalview of the fortress on the reverse. The most prolific of the Florentine medallists of the Cin-quecento—Pastorino excepted—was Pier Paolo Galeotti (died1584), called II Romano, from the place of his birth, which,however, he exchanged in his early youth for Florence. Wepossess seventy-two authenticated pieces by his hand, of whichno fewer than sixteen bear the portrait of Duke Cosimo I. Tojudge from the considerable number of Milanese and Genoesepersonages depicted, he appears to have worked in NorthItaly also. In 1575 he was appointed one of the die-engraversof the papal mint, but never seems to have made any pro-longed sojourn in Rome. From 1550 until his death

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