MICHEL (probably MICHEL CHUNTER). (Austr.). Moneyer at Vienna, 28. August 1369 to 27. May 1379. On a Mint document of 1376, mentioned by Luschin von Ebengreuth, we find the following entry : " Oswaldus et Michel, fratres monetarii dicti Chunter. " Bibliography. — Luschin von Ebengreuth, Wiens Münzwesen, &c.
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
MEISSONNIER, JUSTE AUR?LE
MEISSONNIER, JUSTE AUR?LE (French). Architect, Painter, Sculptor, and Goldsmith, born at Turin in 1675, died at Paris in 1750. He was one of the artists, says Rondot, who gave a new impulse to the decorative art, created under Louis XIV. by Lepautre, Marot, and others. As chief of a school he is one of the originators of the style (so-called) of Louis XV. Meissonnier is famous as a Goldsmith, and he was " Dessinateur ordinaire du Cabinet du roi. " Bibliography. — Rondot, op. cit., p. 355. — J. J...
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MEISSONNIER, JUSTE AUR?LE (French). Architect, Painter, Sculptor, and Goldsmith, born at Turin in 1675, died at Paris in 1750. He was one of the artists, says Rondot, who gave a new impulse to the decorative art, created under Louis XIV. by Lepautre, Marot, and others. As chief of a school he is one of the originators of the style (so-called) of Louis XV. Meissonnier is famous as a Goldsmith, and he was " Dessinateur ordinaire du Cabinet du roi. " Bibliography. — Rondot, op. cit., p. 355. — J. J...
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MEIT, CONRAD
MEIT, CONRAD (Germ.). Sculptor to the Archduchess Margarethe, a friend of Albrecht Dürer, who worked some time at Wittenberg, in the early part of the sixteenth century. He appears to have been also a Medallist, as shown by the Portrait-medal of the young Nuremberg patrician Peter Harsdörffer, signed : CONTRFET VON CONRAT MIT. A model of this medal in alabaster was published by Imhoff, but the inscription could no longer be read. By the same artist is a statuette of Judith in alabaster in the Ba...
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MEIT, CONRAD (Germ.). Sculptor to the Archduchess Margarethe, a friend of Albrecht Dürer, who worked some time at Wittenberg, in the early part of the sixteenth century. He appears to have been also a Medallist, as shown by the Portrait-medal of the young Nuremberg patrician Peter Harsdörffer, signed : CONTRFET VON CONRAT MIT. A model of this medal in alabaster was published by Imhoff, but the inscription could no longer be read. By the same artist is a statuette of Judith in alabaster in the Ba...
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MELCHIOR, JOHANN PETER
MELCHIOR, JOHANN PETER (Germ.). Sculptor and Modeller in wax, terra-cotta, etc., born in 1742, died in 1825. Between 1770 and 1779 he was Court Sculptor at Höchst-am-Main ; later he worked at Frankenthal, Mannheim, and Nuremberg, and in 1796 he was appointed Inspector of the Porcelain Manufactory of Nymphenburg. There he executed numerous Portrait-medallions of the Bavarian Royal family ; — Samuel Thomas von Soemmering, a distinguished physician, and others. From an earlier date are the artist'...
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MELCHIOR, JOHANN PETER (Germ.). Sculptor and Modeller in wax, terra-cotta, etc., born in 1742, died in 1825. Between 1770 and 1779 he was Court Sculptor at Höchst-am-Main ; later he worked at Frankenthal, Mannheim, and Nuremberg, and in 1796 he was appointed Inspector of the Porcelain Manufactory of Nymphenburg. There he executed numerous Portrait-medallions of the Bavarian Royal family ; — Samuel Thomas von Soemmering, a distinguished physician, and others. From an earlier date are the artist'...
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MELIOLUS
MELIOLUS or MELIOLI, BARTOLOMEO (Ital.). Goldsmith and Medallist of Mantua, born in 1448, died in 1514. About 1492, he was entrusted with the direction of the Mantuan mint, and remained apparently in office until 1514, the year of his death. We learn from a document in the Gonzaga archives that in 1493 the artist cut the dies for a gold Ducat with the portrait of the Marquis Gianfrancesco II. The other coins of that reign, which rank amongst the best monetary productions of the Italian Renaissan...
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MELIOLUS or MELIOLI, BARTOLOMEO (Ital.). Goldsmith and Medallist of Mantua, born in 1448, died in 1514. About 1492, he was entrusted with the direction of the Mantuan mint, and remained apparently in office until 1514, the year of his death. We learn from a document in the Gonzaga archives that in 1493 the artist cut the dies for a gold Ducat with the portrait of the Marquis Gianfrancesco II. The other coins of that reign, which rank amongst the best monetary productions of the Italian Renaissan...
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