MANTEGNA, ANDREA (ltal). A celebrated Italian Painter and Engraver, born at Padua, 1430-1504. His works were numerous; he did altar-pieces and frescoes, his greatest being "The Triumph of Caesar". He was a man of versatile genius and poet as well as painter. His influence on Italian art was very considerable. At the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, are two bronze Plaques, both representing The Entombment, probably contemporary adaptations from the engraving on the same subject by Mantegna. Others, Christ standing in the Sepulchre; — The Virgin and child under a canopy with saints ; — A Roman sacrifice, &c. are described in Fortnum's Catalogue of Bronzes in the South Kensington Museum, as of the school of Mantegna. Mantegna may be the author of the admirable bronze Portraitmedallion of himself on his tomb in the chapel of S. Giovanni, in Sant' Andrea Basilica at Mantua.
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
LUNDER, GABRIEL
LUNDER, GABRIEL (Norweg.). Medallist of the second half of the eighteenth century ; born at Kongsberg (in Norway) ; resided for some time at Nuremberg, then at Koenigsberg, and finally settled at Copenhagen, where he was working from 1742 to 1782. His productions are usually signed G. L. or G. L. F., but also L. One of the most artistic is his Portrait-medal of the ecclesiastic Johann Meyer, superior of St. Lorenz, at Nuremberg. Bibliography. — Ammon, op. cit. — Bolzenthal, op. cit. — I. V. Kull...
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LUNDER, GABRIEL (Norweg.). Medallist of the second half of the eighteenth century ; born at Kongsberg (in Norway) ; resided for some time at Nuremberg, then at Koenigsberg, and finally settled at Copenhagen, where he was working from 1742 to 1782. His productions are usually signed G. L. or G. L. F., but also L. One of the most artistic is his Portrait-medal of the ecclesiastic Johann Meyer, superior of St. Lorenz, at Nuremberg. Bibliography. — Ammon, op. cit. — Bolzenthal, op. cit. — I. V. Kull...
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LUNDERBERG, LAWRENCE D.
LUNDERBERG, LAWRENCE D. (Swed.). Medallist of the end of the eighteenth century and early part of the nineteenth. He resided at Stockholm, and is the author of some medals : Charles (afterwards Earl) Grey, M. P., 1801 (signed : LUNDERBERG); — Medal of the Historical and Archaeological Society of Sweden, 1801 ; — Return of King Charles XIII. from the Riksdag at Örebro, 18. October 1810; — New year's Medalet (1800); — Dr Lorenz Gabriel Branting; — Dr. Frans Joaquim von Aken, apothecary, of Örebro,...
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LUNDERBERG, LAWRENCE D. (Swed.). Medallist of the end of the eighteenth century and early part of the nineteenth. He resided at Stockholm, and is the author of some medals : Charles (afterwards Earl) Grey, M. P., 1801 (signed : LUNDERBERG); — Medal of the Historical and Archaeological Society of Sweden, 1801 ; — Return of King Charles XIII. from the Riksdag at Örebro, 18. October 1810; — New year's Medalet (1800); — Dr Lorenz Gabriel Branting; — Dr. Frans Joaquim von Aken, apothecary, of Örebro,...
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LUNDGREN, LGDWIG PETERSSEN
LUNDGREN, LGDWIG PETERSSEN (Swed.). Medallist of the first half of the nineteenth century, and Mint-engraver at Stockholm, circ. 1818- 1853. He died about 1854, the year in which his daughter, Leah Ahlborn, succeeded to his post at the Mint, and he was born towards the end of the eighteenth century. Besides engraving dies for the coinage of King Oscar I., Lundgren produced a large number of medals, some of which rank very high among contemporaneous works. They are signed in various forms : L. P....
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LUNDGREN, LGDWIG PETERSSEN (Swed.). Medallist of the first half of the nineteenth century, and Mint-engraver at Stockholm, circ. 1818- 1853. He died about 1854, the year in which his daughter, Leah Ahlborn, succeeded to his post at the Mint, and he was born towards the end of the eighteenth century. Besides engraving dies for the coinage of King Oscar I., Lundgren produced a large number of medals, some of which rank very high among contemporaneous works. They are signed in various forms : L. P....
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LÜNEN, HERBART VON
LÜNEN, HERBART VON (Germ.). A native of Oldenburg, and Mint-engraver at Dresden, circ. 1605-1616, and Medallist there until about 1626. He signed his productions H. V. L. or H. V. L. F. The coins issued at Dresden between 1605 and 16 16 are mostly the work of this Engraver, who was succeeded in 1616 by Ruprecht Niclas Kitzkatz, and among his medals are : Medal of John George I., Prince Elector of Saxony, obv. PRO LEGE ET GREGE. Prince on horseback R. SCOPVS VIT? ME? CHRISTVS (signed : H. V. L.);...
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LÜNEN, HERBART VON (Germ.). A native of Oldenburg, and Mint-engraver at Dresden, circ. 1605-1616, and Medallist there until about 1626. He signed his productions H. V. L. or H. V. L. F. The coins issued at Dresden between 1605 and 16 16 are mostly the work of this Engraver, who was succeeded in 1616 by Ruprecht Niclas Kitzkatz, and among his medals are : Medal of John George I., Prince Elector of Saxony, obv. PRO LEGE ET GREGE. Prince on horseback R. SCOPVS VIT? ME? CHRISTVS (signed : H. V. L.);...
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