CITERNI, C. (Ital.). Medallist of the second half of the seventeenth century. Very little is known of this artist, except that he executed a Portrait-medallion of Livio Odescalchi. Bibliography. — Bolzenthal, op. cit.
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
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...
[ More about 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...
[ More about CAPUTI ]
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...
[ More about 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...
[ More about CAQUÉ, ARMAND AUGUSTE ]
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...
[ More about 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...
[ More about CARADOSSO, CRISTOFANO ]
CARAGLIO, GIOVAN JACOPO
CARAGLIO, GIOVAN JACOPO (Ital.). Line, and Gem-engraver, Medallist, and Architect. He was a native of Verona, where we find him working as early as 1526, and where he also died in 1570 (or 1571). He spent about thirty years at the court of Sigismund I. of Poland, and while there (circa 1540) executed medals of this King, and of his consort, Bona Sforza, which have not come down to us, and one of Alessandro Pesenti, a Veronese, in the service of Bona Sforza, with bust on obv., and musical instrum...
[ More about CARAGLIO, GIOVAN JACOPO ]
CARAGLIO, GIOVAN JACOPO (Ital.). Line, and Gem-engraver, Medallist, and Architect. He was a native of Verona, where we find him working as early as 1526, and where he also died in 1570 (or 1571). He spent about thirty years at the court of Sigismund I. of Poland, and while there (circa 1540) executed medals of this King, and of his consort, Bona Sforza, which have not come down to us, and one of Alessandro Pesenti, a Veronese, in the service of Bona Sforza, with bust on obv., and musical instrum...
[ More about CARAGLIO, GIOVAN JACOPO ]