GIANELLI, PIETRO LEONARDO (Ital.). Medallist and Coin-engraver, born at Copenhagen on the 27th October 1761 ; obtained in 1784 the small silver medal of the Academy of Fine Arts, and in 1787, the large medal. In 1791 he went abroad, where he resided for some years. In 1798 he became a Member of the Academy of Fine Arts of Copenhagen, and in 1800, was elected Royal Medallist to the Copenhagen Mint. He married in 1802 Anne Marguerite Louise Boisen, and died on the 23rd December 1807. His son Harald Gianelli (1803- 1832) was a modeller of note and was granted the small silver medal of the Academy of Fine Arts. The signature of the artist generally appears as P. G. and some times also as P. GIANELLI. The " Cabinet Royal des Médailles" at Copenhagen preserves eight medals engraved by P. L. Gianelli, which are the only ones known by him. 1. 1792. Medal struck on the occasion of the Abolition of Slavery in the Danish West Indies. 2. 1800. Prize Medal for attendance at Sunday Schools. 3. 1 80 1. Medal of Honour to Officers and Privates who distinguished themselves in the naval engagement off Copenhagen, on the 2nd April, 1801. 4. 1804. Portrait-medal of the botanist Martin Vahl (obv. only). 5. Undated. The Large Medal of the Academy of Fine Arts. 6. Undated. The small Medal of the Academy of Fine Arts. 7. Undated. Prize Medal of the Royal Society of Literature. 8. Undated. Medal of Honour for Members of the Commission of Arbitration. All these medals are of great rarity. Bibliography. — Schlickeysen-Pallmann, op. cit. — Bolzenthal, op. cit. — Catalogue of the Thomsen Collection, Copenhagen, 1873. — Information kindly furnished by Herr P. Hauberg, Director of the Royal Coin Cabinet of Copen hagen, and Herr Julius Meili, of Zurich (Switzerland).
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
GALLI ERNESTO
GALLI ERNESTO (Ital.). Roman Die-sinker of the first half of the nineteenth century. He engraved a number of medals commemorat- ing contemporaneous events of Italian history and portraits of cele- brities. I have seen by him : Marriage-medal of Charles III. of Parma with Louise Marie de Bourbon ; — Scipione Maffei ; — Giov. Batt. Bodonius; — Pope Gregory XVI.; — 1838, Opening of the Stone Bridge on the Nure; — &c. — Galli belonged to the celebrated family of artists and painters of that name; hi...
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GALLI ERNESTO (Ital.). Roman Die-sinker of the first half of the nineteenth century. He engraved a number of medals commemorat- ing contemporaneous events of Italian history and portraits of cele- brities. I have seen by him : Marriage-medal of Charles III. of Parma with Louise Marie de Bourbon ; — Scipione Maffei ; — Giov. Batt. Bodonius; — Pope Gregory XVI.; — 1838, Opening of the Stone Bridge on the Nure; — &c. — Galli belonged to the celebrated family of artists and painters of that name; hi...
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GALMOLE, THOMAS
GALMOLE, THOMAS (Brit.). Master and Worker of the Money of silver in Devylyn (Dublin) and Warerford under Edward IV. In 1483 "an indenture for Ireland was made with Thomas Galmole, gent., master and worker of the money of silver, and keeper of the exchanges in the cities of Devylyn and Waterford. He was to make two sorts of monies : one called a peny, with the king's arms on one side, upon a cross trefoyled on every end ; and with this inscription REX ANGLIE & FRANCIE, and on the other side the ...
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GALMOLE, THOMAS (Brit.). Master and Worker of the Money of silver in Devylyn (Dublin) and Warerford under Edward IV. In 1483 "an indenture for Ireland was made with Thomas Galmole, gent., master and worker of the money of silver, and keeper of the exchanges in the cities of Devylyn and Waterford. He was to make two sorts of monies : one called a peny, with the king's arms on one side, upon a cross trefoyled on every end ; and with this inscription REX ANGLIE & FRANCIE, and on the other side the ...
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GAMOONI, ALI
GAMOONI, ALI (Arab.). Mr. Henry A. Rhind writing in 1862 says : " There is now at Thebes an archforger of scarabaei — a cer- tain Ali Gamooni, whose endeavours, in the manufacture of these much sought after relics, have been crowned with the greatest suc- cess. Scarabaei of elegant and well finished descriptions, are not beyond the range of this curious counterfeiter. These he makes ot the same material as the ancients used — a close-grained, easily cut lime-stone — which after it is cut into sh...
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GAMOONI, ALI (Arab.). Mr. Henry A. Rhind writing in 1862 says : " There is now at Thebes an archforger of scarabaei — a cer- tain Ali Gamooni, whose endeavours, in the manufacture of these much sought after relics, have been crowned with the greatest suc- cess. Scarabaei of elegant and well finished descriptions, are not beyond the range of this curious counterfeiter. These he makes ot the same material as the ancients used — a close-grained, easily cut lime-stone — which after it is cut into sh...
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GARDET, JOSEPH ANTOINE
GARDET, JOSEPH ANTOINE (French). Contemporary Medallist of the modern school of Chaplain and Roty, born at Paris in 1857 where he died in 1891. Some of his medallic productions are exhibited at the Luxemburg Museum, and the artist is held in great esteem. Medal-engraving does not however seem to have been his favourite branch, which no doubt accounts for the scarcity of his medals. There is one at the Luxemburg Museum, a cast Portrait-medal of the engraver, Jean Patricot, which exhibits beautifu...
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GARDET, JOSEPH ANTOINE (French). Contemporary Medallist of the modern school of Chaplain and Roty, born at Paris in 1857 where he died in 1891. Some of his medallic productions are exhibited at the Luxemburg Museum, and the artist is held in great esteem. Medal-engraving does not however seem to have been his favourite branch, which no doubt accounts for the scarcity of his medals. There is one at the Luxemburg Museum, a cast Portrait-medal of the engraver, Jean Patricot, which exhibits beautifu...
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