LUDWIG & MAYER (Germ.). Type founders of Frankfort-on-Mein, who in 1890, issued a medal on the occasion of the 450th Anniversary of Printing. The medal is in lead, and was presented to all the persons present at the celebration.
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
LIPPI, FILIPPINO
LIPPI, FILIPPINO (Ital.) . Florentine Painter (1460-1504); son of Fra Filippo Lippi ; he is presumed to have been a pupil of Botticelli. His earliest known work is the " Vision of St. Bernard" in Florence, and he executed various works in Bologna, Genoa and Rome ; painted frescoes and altar-pieces, and scenes in the lives of St. Peter and St. Paul. Friedländer has suggested him as the author of some medals of Lucrezia Borgia, which are however undoubtedly the work of Gian Cristoforo Romano, (q....
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LIPPI, FILIPPINO (Ital.) . Florentine Painter (1460-1504); son of Fra Filippo Lippi ; he is presumed to have been a pupil of Botticelli. His earliest known work is the " Vision of St. Bernard" in Florence, and he executed various works in Bologna, Genoa and Rome ; painted frescoes and altar-pieces, and scenes in the lives of St. Peter and St. Paul. Friedländer has suggested him as the author of some medals of Lucrezia Borgia, which are however undoubtedly the work of Gian Cristoforo Romano, (q....
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LIXIGNOLO, GIACOMO
LIXIGNOLO, GIACOMO (Ital.). Medallist of the third quarter of the fifteenth century, whose signature occurs on a medal, dated 1460, of Borso d'Este, first Duke of Ferrara (1413-1450 † 1471). On obv. is a bust of the Duke to r. R. OPVS . IACOBVS . LIXIGNOLO . MCCCCLX. Unicorn beside a stream in mountainous landscape, over which the sun is shining. Diam : 83 mill. Heiss mentions that a painter of the name of Jacobus de Lusciniis was residing at Parma in 1471 but that it is not possible to identify...
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LIXIGNOLO, GIACOMO (Ital.). Medallist of the third quarter of the fifteenth century, whose signature occurs on a medal, dated 1460, of Borso d'Este, first Duke of Ferrara (1413-1450 † 1471). On obv. is a bust of the Duke to r. R. OPVS . IACOBVS . LIXIGNOLO . MCCCCLX. Unicorn beside a stream in mountainous landscape, over which the sun is shining. Diam : 83 mill. Heiss mentions that a painter of the name of Jacobus de Lusciniis was residing at Parma in 1471 but that it is not possible to identify...
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LJALIN, ALEXANDER
LJALIN, ALEXANDER (Russ.). Medallist of the second quarter of the nineteenth century, who worked at St. Petersburg. Iversen states that he was born in 1799, entered in 1813 the Academy of Fine Arts, where he obtained the second silver medal, appointed Engraver at the Mint in 1824, and died in 1861. From 1851 until his death he held a chair of Professor of medal-engraving at the Academy. Amongst his productions, which are usually signed A.?. or A.????H? I have noticed : Portrait-medal of Peter...
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LJALIN, ALEXANDER (Russ.). Medallist of the second quarter of the nineteenth century, who worked at St. Petersburg. Iversen states that he was born in 1799, entered in 1813 the Academy of Fine Arts, where he obtained the second silver medal, appointed Engraver at the Mint in 1824, and died in 1861. From 1851 until his death he held a chair of Professor of medal-engraving at the Academy. Amongst his productions, which are usually signed A.?. or A.????H? I have noticed : Portrait-medal of Peter...
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LJUNGBERGER, GUSTAV
LJUNGBERGER, GUSTAV (Swed.). Medallist of the second half of the eighteenth century, born circ. 1740, who worked at Stockholm, 1765-1801. On the death of Fehrman in 1780, he was appointed Court-medallist. His talent found recognition from the Academies of Florence, Bologna, Vienna, and Copenhagen which received him as a member, and the King of Sweden (Gustavus III.) invested him with the Order of Wasa. Among this artist's best known productions are the following medals : Medal of the Lodge " Ein...
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LJUNGBERGER, GUSTAV (Swed.). Medallist of the second half of the eighteenth century, born circ. 1740, who worked at Stockholm, 1765-1801. On the death of Fehrman in 1780, he was appointed Court-medallist. His talent found recognition from the Academies of Florence, Bologna, Vienna, and Copenhagen which received him as a member, and the King of Sweden (Gustavus III.) invested him with the Order of Wasa. Among this artist's best known productions are the following medals : Medal of the Lodge " Ein...
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