LEONARDO DONA. Mint-inspector at Venice, 1478.
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
LAVY, CARLO
LAVY, CARLO (ltal.). Medallist, and Mint-engraver at Turin, born in 1765, died in 1813 ;a brother of Amadeo Lavy. He was appointed to the Mint in 1789, but after the French invasion of the Piedmontese territory and the constitution of the Cisalpine Republic, his brother Amadeo was entrusted with the cutting of the coindies, at the Turin Mint, 1801. Carlo Lavy executed several medals from designs by the painter Appiani, some of which celebrate Napoleon I. The two brothers sent in An XI (1803) a p...
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LAVY, CARLO (ltal.). Medallist, and Mint-engraver at Turin, born in 1765, died in 1813 ;a brother of Amadeo Lavy. He was appointed to the Mint in 1789, but after the French invasion of the Piedmontese territory and the constitution of the Cisalpine Republic, his brother Amadeo was entrusted with the cutting of the coindies, at the Turin Mint, 1801. Carlo Lavy executed several medals from designs by the painter Appiani, some of which celebrate Napoleon I. The two brothers sent in An XI (1803) a p...
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LAW
LAW (Brit.). Gem-engraver of the end of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth. The following works bear his signature: Head of Bacchant, carnelian; — Head of Herakles, carnelian ; — Head of Medusa ; — Head of Socrates ; — A term of Xenophon crowned with laurel; — Head of Lucretia, emerald; — Head of Seneca ; — Head of Julia, daughter of Titus, sapphire ; — Cameo, with head of Antinoüs ; — Bust of And. Marvel, Scotch poet ; — Cameo, bust of Sir Walter Raleigh ; — Cameo, bust of G...
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LAW (Brit.). Gem-engraver of the end of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth. The following works bear his signature: Head of Bacchant, carnelian; — Head of Herakles, carnelian ; — Head of Medusa ; — Head of Socrates ; — A term of Xenophon crowned with laurel; — Head of Lucretia, emerald; — Head of Seneca ; — Head of Julia, daughter of Titus, sapphire ; — Cameo, with head of Antinoüs ; — Bust of And. Marvel, Scotch poet ; — Cameo, bust of Sir Walter Raleigh ; — Cameo, bust of G...
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LAW, JOHN
LAW, JOHN (Brit.). Financier, born at Edinburgh in 1681, died at Venice in 1729. He was made Comptroller-general of the finances of France, upon the strength of a scheme for establishing a bank, and an East India and a Mississipi Company, by the profits of which the national debt of France was to be paid off. Law's bank, which was opened in 1716, was declared a Royal bank in 1718, but in 1720 this fabric of false credit fell to the ground, spreading ruin throughout the country. Law initiated the...
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LAW, JOHN (Brit.). Financier, born at Edinburgh in 1681, died at Venice in 1729. He was made Comptroller-general of the finances of France, upon the strength of a scheme for establishing a bank, and an East India and a Mississipi Company, by the profits of which the national debt of France was to be paid off. Law's bank, which was opened in 1716, was declared a Royal bank in 1718, but in 1720 this fabric of false credit fell to the ground, spreading ruin throughout the country. Law initiated the...
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LAZARI, ANTONIO
LAZARI, ANTONIO (Ital.). Medallist of the first half of the eighteenth century, and Mint-engraver. His signature: ANT. LAZARI FEC. is found on a Portrait-medal of Donna Laura Maria Bassi, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bologna, 1732. Lazari, who was a native of Modena, succeeded Antonio Maria Parmeggiani as Mint-engraver at Bologna in 1709, but in 1713 he was replaced by Carlo Falconi, again appointed in 1728; he remained in office until 1734. Bibliography. — Ammon, op. cit. — Bolz...
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LAZARI, ANTONIO (Ital.). Medallist of the first half of the eighteenth century, and Mint-engraver. His signature: ANT. LAZARI FEC. is found on a Portrait-medal of Donna Laura Maria Bassi, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bologna, 1732. Lazari, who was a native of Modena, succeeded Antonio Maria Parmeggiani as Mint-engraver at Bologna in 1709, but in 1713 he was replaced by Carlo Falconi, again appointed in 1728; he remained in office until 1734. Bibliography. — Ammon, op. cit. — Bolz...
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