CETTO, ANDREA (Austr.). Mint-master at Vienna, 1661-1665. A 15 Kreuzer piece of 1663 is signed AC in monogram.
Source: Biographical dictionary of medallists; coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, ancient and modern, with references to their works B.C. 500-A.D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer, London 1904
Source: Biographical dictionary of medallists; coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, ancient and modern, with references to their works B.C. 500-A.D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer, London 1904
Mint master:
In medieval and early modern Germany, the Münzmeister ("mint master", the Latin term is monetarius) was the director or administrator of a mint, a moneyer with responsibility for the minting of coins, or specie. His duties were defined differently at different locations and ages.
CANZANI, DEMETRIO
CANZANI, DEMETRIO (Ital). Milanese Die-sinker and Medallist, of the third quarter of the nineteenth century. I have seen a medal of Prince von Schwarzenberg, on his election as governor of Milan, in 1850, with this engraver's signature : DEM. CANZANI F., and others on the Marriage of the Emperor Francis Joseph with Princess Elizabeth of Bavaria, 1854; — Visit of the Emperor Francis Joseph to Lombardy, 1851 ; — Visit of the Emperor and Empress to Milan, 1857 (2 var.) ; — Civic Hospital at Trieste...
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CANZANI, DEMETRIO (Ital). Milanese Die-sinker and Medallist, of the third quarter of the nineteenth century. I have seen a medal of Prince von Schwarzenberg, on his election as governor of Milan, in 1850, with this engraver's signature : DEM. CANZANI F., and others on the Marriage of the Emperor Francis Joseph with Princess Elizabeth of Bavaria, 1854; — Visit of the Emperor Francis Joseph to Lombardy, 1851 ; — Visit of the Emperor and Empress to Milan, 1857 (2 var.) ; — Civic Hospital at Trieste...
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CAPUTI
CAPUTI (Ital.). Medallist of the early part of the present century. There is a portrait of Cardinal Consalvi by him. Although the two names Capucci and Caputi occur in works of reference, I believe they represent only one artist, as Capucci, the gem-engraver is called Caputi in H. Lehnert's biography of the medallist Henri Francois Brandt. In the Duke of Cambridge's Sale (June 1904) was a circular onyx cameo of Saint George slaying the Dragon (The lesser George of the most noble Order of the Gar...
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CAPUTI (Ital.). Medallist of the early part of the present century. There is a portrait of Cardinal Consalvi by him. Although the two names Capucci and Caputi occur in works of reference, I believe they represent only one artist, as Capucci, the gem-engraver is called Caputi in H. Lehnert's biography of the medallist Henri Francois Brandt. In the Duke of Cambridge's Sale (June 1904) was a circular onyx cameo of Saint George slaying the Dragon (The lesser George of the most noble Order of the Gar...
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CAQUÉ, ARMAND AUGUSTE
CAQUÉ, ARMAND AUGUSTE (French). Medallist, born at Saintes in 1793 ; pupil of the Royal School at Rochefort, the Ecole d'application at Metz, and of Raymond Gayrard. From 1817-1818, he was employed as Assistant-engraver at the Mint of the Hague. Under Napoleon III., he was appointed Engraver to the Imperial Cabinet, a post which he held from 1853 to 1868. He died in Paris in December, 1881. Caqué largely contributed to Durand's " Series Numismatica Universalis Virorum Illustrium". Dr Weber menti...
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CAQUÉ, ARMAND AUGUSTE (French). Medallist, born at Saintes in 1793 ; pupil of the Royal School at Rochefort, the Ecole d'application at Metz, and of Raymond Gayrard. From 1817-1818, he was employed as Assistant-engraver at the Mint of the Hague. Under Napoleon III., he was appointed Engraver to the Imperial Cabinet, a post which he held from 1853 to 1868. He died in Paris in December, 1881. Caqué largely contributed to Durand's " Series Numismatica Universalis Virorum Illustrium". Dr Weber menti...
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CARADOSSO, CRISTOFANO
CARADOSSO, CRISTOFANO (Ital.). Goldsmith, Medallist, Coin-, and Gem-engraver. He was born at Mondonico, in the province of Como, circa 1445, and died at the beginning of 1527. He usually styled himself " Caradosso del Mundo". This celebrated artist flourished at Milan under Ludovico ll Moro, and after the fall of this prince, worked at Rome under the popes Julius II., Leo X., and Clement VII. Benvenuto Cellini praises him in very high terms as one of the greatest artists of his time and extols h...
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CARADOSSO, CRISTOFANO (Ital.). Goldsmith, Medallist, Coin-, and Gem-engraver. He was born at Mondonico, in the province of Como, circa 1445, and died at the beginning of 1527. He usually styled himself " Caradosso del Mundo". This celebrated artist flourished at Milan under Ludovico ll Moro, and after the fall of this prince, worked at Rome under the popes Julius II., Leo X., and Clement VII. Benvenuto Cellini praises him in very high terms as one of the greatest artists of his time and extols h...
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