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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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the Cathedral at Loreto, where he died in thecourse of three years in the prime of life, a victim of theterrible disease which had been brought to Italy by the armyof Charles VIII. A document only recently discovered has shown the masterto be the author of the three medals already mentioned. All Thanks to the sympathetic personality of the Marchioness, honoured throughout Italy,as well as to the excellence of the medal as an artistic achievement, it became so popularand was so much sought after that in 1505 Giancristoforo was obliged to issue a replica—the only instance known to us of an artist personally supervising a second edition of amedal. It deviates in a few features—the aquiline nose, the slightly projecting lower lip,the different necklace, the sharply defined edge of the bodice—from the original treatment,as is clearly evident from the example (in a gold frame set with jewels) in the Cabinet ofVienna. The reverse remained entirely unaltered in the replica. 52 Plate XII
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5 7 MELIOLI, TALPA, LAXTICC), GIANCRISTOFORO ROMANO /•■<(.•- t). 52 Vittore Pisano and his Successors three are inspired with a grace hitherto unknown in works ofthe kind—even the Papa terrible has acquired an expressionof fatherly bonhomie in Romanos presentation. The relief is,at the same time, modelled with unusual delicacy, even a littleaffected nicety is not disdained : for example, the veil, whichreveals rather than hides the features of Duchess Isabella,which the contemporary letter already mentioned extols ascosa molto artificiosa. The allegories of the reverses, in theircarefully thought out composition, breathing throughout thekeenest sense of beauty both in motive and form, are likewisejewels of their kind ; inspired in both respects by the antique,they nevertheless forfeit nothing of their attractive individualcachet. The proudly standing Goddess of Victory of theGonzaga medal, with her Coan draperies flowing round her ;the indescribably graceful seated nude mai

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