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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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f the Quattrocentoby citing some pieces of wholly anonymous masters, which invirtue of the personages depicted merit our interest in the highestdegree. The first (PI. XXVIII., 3) shows the profile, brutalbut full of character, and modelled by a master hand, of Fran-cesco Lancilotti (born 1472), a painter known to us not by theproductions of his brush, but only by a treatise written inverse in praise of his art. Faithless to the saying to which hegives utterance in a passage in this treatise in honour of hisnative city— Virtu lascia chi lascia Fiorenza —he spent agreat part of his life in restless wanderings through Italy,Spain, and North Africa, perhaps as a mercenary, since on ^ Further particulars concerning this piece, which has hitherto been included amongthose of anonymous masters, may be found in the article by the author already quoted.(The medal of the poet Agosto Graziani da Udine, with Urania on the reverse, may also ongrounds of style be assigned to Adriano.—G. F. H,)
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Florentine Medals the reverse he has depicted himself in full armour on horse-back. The next piece (PI. XXVIII., 2) gives the portrait ofLorenzo de Medici (1460-1503), called II Popolano, from thecircumstance that after the expulsion of his family in 1495,severing himself from them, he took the side of the populace.The collateral branch to which he belonged (that from whichsprang the line of Grand-Dukes) signalised itself by its patron-age of art. It was for Lorenzos father, Pierfrancesco, thatBotticelli made his drawings for Dante ; for Lorenzo himselfthat the young Michael Angelo carved a Giovannino, and atLorenzos suggestion that he modelled the little sleepingCupid in imitation of the antique, which in our own days hasbeen rediscovered in the Museum of Turin. The two Medicialso, on whom the chisel of the great master in his riper yearsbestowed immortality in the sacristy of S. Lorenzo, meet usagain in two medals. That of Giuliano (1478-1516), the sonof Lorenzo the Magnificent, doe

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