MICHELE DE FONTAINE. Medallist at Turin, 1659-1680.
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
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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MELLGREN, CARL MAGNUS
MELLGREN, CARL MAGNUS (Swed.). Medallist of the second quarter of the nineteenth century, who resided at Stockholm. I have noticed his signature (C. M. M.) on the following medals: Bernhard Henrik Crusell, Swedish clarinetist (undated); — Erik Gustaf Geijer, professor of history at Upsala (undated); — Gustavus II. Adolphus. PEPIGIT NOBIS etc., 1832 ; — Gustavus III., Swedish Academy, 1836; — Carl Michael Bellman, 1833; — J. J. Berzelius, 1834, etc. Bibliography. — Schlickeysen-Pallmann, op. ci...
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MELLGREN, CARL MAGNUS (Swed.). Medallist of the second quarter of the nineteenth century, who resided at Stockholm. I have noticed his signature (C. M. M.) on the following medals: Bernhard Henrik Crusell, Swedish clarinetist (undated); — Erik Gustaf Geijer, professor of history at Upsala (undated); — Gustavus II. Adolphus. PEPIGIT NOBIS etc., 1832 ; — Gustavus III., Swedish Academy, 1836; — Carl Michael Bellman, 1833; — J. J. Berzelius, 1834, etc. Bibliography. — Schlickeysen-Pallmann, op. ci...
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MELON
MELON or MILON (also MELONE and MILLON), GIOVANNI V.(Ital.). Medallist of the second half of the sixteenth century; possibly a native of Cremona, and as suggested by Milanesi, a nephew of the painter Altobello Melone or Milone. His productions, which date from circ. 1571 to 1589, are variously signed : IO.V.MILON.F.; — IO.V.MELON.F. ; — IO.V.MILON ; — MELON F. : — MILLON.F. etc. The work on some of these medals is very good. Van Loon remarks that the commemorative piece of Don Juan's expedition...
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MELON or MILON (also MELONE and MILLON), GIOVANNI V.(Ital.). Medallist of the second half of the sixteenth century; possibly a native of Cremona, and as suggested by Milanesi, a nephew of the painter Altobello Melone or Milone. His productions, which date from circ. 1571 to 1589, are variously signed : IO.V.MILON.F.; — IO.V.MELON.F. ; — IO.V.MILON ; — MELON F. : — MILLON.F. etc. The work on some of these medals is very good. Van Loon remarks that the commemorative piece of Don Juan's expedition...
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MELWER, CONRAD
MELWER, CONRAD (Brit.). Master of the Mint and coinage within the duchy of Normandy, under Henry V. of England, appointed on 17. March, 1417. " He had full power to make and coin, either by himself or his deputies, new money called blanks (Gros Blancs), half blanks (Petits or Demi -Blancs), and black pence (Deniers), of the same metal and assay as they had been made in that duchy. He was to hold the said office during pleasure, and to take for himself and servants such wages as should be agreed ...
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MELWER, CONRAD (Brit.). Master of the Mint and coinage within the duchy of Normandy, under Henry V. of England, appointed on 17. March, 1417. " He had full power to make and coin, either by himself or his deputies, new money called blanks (Gros Blancs), half blanks (Petits or Demi -Blancs), and black pence (Deniers), of the same metal and assay as they had been made in that duchy. He was to hold the said office during pleasure, and to take for himself and servants such wages as should be agreed ...
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