MORONE-MOLA, GASPARO (ltal.). Nephew of the renowned Medallist and Coin-engraver Gaspare Mola, and himself also a clever Engraver. The date of his birth is not on record, but we know that in 1633 he was working at Mantua as Mint-engraver there. In 1637 we -find him already in Rome, where he entered into a partnership with Gaspare Mola and Orazio Ghibellini for the production of commemorative and personal medals. On the death of his uncle, he was appointed his successor as Engraver at the Papal Zecca. He received his first monthly payment from the Mint in February 1640. From that date until 1665 he executed all the annual pontifical medals, as well as most of the coins, serving four Popes in succession : Urban VIII., Innocent X., Alexander VII., and Clement IX. In 1668 he was given an assistant in the person of Lucenti, who became his successor.
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
MISSERONI, GIROLAMO
MISSERONI, GIROLAMO (or HIERONYMO) (Ital.). Milanese Gemengraver, who also distinguished himself in the cutting of vases in crystal, agate, and lapis-lazuli. Several of his fine works, and of those of his brother Girolamo, are preserved at the Florence Museum and in various collections at Vienna and Prague. Towards the end of the sixteenth century he settled in the Bohemian capital, and worked for the emperor Rudolph II. In the Vienna “ Kunstkammer " is preserved a Beaker, four feet high, in r...
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MISSERONI, GIROLAMO (or HIERONYMO) (Ital.). Milanese Gemengraver, who also distinguished himself in the cutting of vases in crystal, agate, and lapis-lazuli. Several of his fine works, and of those of his brother Girolamo, are preserved at the Florence Museum and in various collections at Vienna and Prague. Towards the end of the sixteenth century he settled in the Bohemian capital, and worked for the emperor Rudolph II. In the Vienna “ Kunstkammer " is preserved a Beaker, four feet high, in r...
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MISSERONI
MISSERONI. A family of Gem-engravers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Girolamo and Gasparo Misseroni were contemporaries of Jacopo da Trezzo, and were called from Milan to Prague in the service of the emperor Rudolph II. Their descendants Ambrogio, Alessandro, Ottavio, Dionis, and Giulio all worked for the Imperial court, and, according to Nagler, produced very fine work. The family was originary of Milan. The name occurs in various forms : MISERON ; — MISSERONI ; MISURONNI, &c. Bibl...
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MISSERONI. A family of Gem-engravers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Girolamo and Gasparo Misseroni were contemporaries of Jacopo da Trezzo, and were called from Milan to Prague in the service of the emperor Rudolph II. Their descendants Ambrogio, Alessandro, Ottavio, Dionis, and Giulio all worked for the Imperial court, and, according to Nagler, produced very fine work. The family was originary of Milan. The name occurs in various forms : MISERON ; — MISSERONI ; MISURONNI, &c. Bibl...
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MITCHELL, F. N.
MITCHELL, F. N. (Amer.). Sculptor, and Medallist, of the middle years of the nineteenth century; worked at Boston. By him are the following medals : General Dr Joseph Warren, of Boston (4 var.) ; — United States Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Va (or Portsmouth Yellow Fever medal); — Medal of the United States Agricultural Society, 1852; — Medal of the Maine Agricultural Society ;— Medal of the Sandwich Islands Agricultural Society ; — Medal of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics' Association; — ...
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MITCHELL, F. N. (Amer.). Sculptor, and Medallist, of the middle years of the nineteenth century; worked at Boston. By him are the following medals : General Dr Joseph Warren, of Boston (4 var.) ; — United States Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Va (or Portsmouth Yellow Fever medal); — Medal of the United States Agricultural Society, 1852; — Medal of the Maine Agricultural Society ;— Medal of the Sandwich Islands Agricultural Society ; — Medal of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics' Association; — ...
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MITTERMAYER, MATTHIAS VON WAFFENBERG
MITTERMAYER, MATTHIAS VON WAFFENBERG (Austr.). Mintmaster at Vienna, circ. 1679-1705 (?); died. 22. December 1708. His initials occur on the coins issued by him, which were all engraved by the Mint-engraver, Johann Michael Hoffmann. Among these are the two commemorative Thalers of the Siege of Vienna, 1683, Double Ducat of 1682, Ducats of 1683-84, Quarter Ducat, 1694, Thalers and Sechsers, &c. A Thaler of Prince Ferdinand Wilhelm Euseb of Schwarzenberg, and consort Maria Anna, 1696, of which se...
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MITTERMAYER, MATTHIAS VON WAFFENBERG (Austr.). Mintmaster at Vienna, circ. 1679-1705 (?); died. 22. December 1708. His initials occur on the coins issued by him, which were all engraved by the Mint-engraver, Johann Michael Hoffmann. Among these are the two commemorative Thalers of the Siege of Vienna, 1683, Double Ducat of 1682, Ducats of 1683-84, Quarter Ducat, 1694, Thalers and Sechsers, &c. A Thaler of Prince Ferdinand Wilhelm Euseb of Schwarzenberg, and consort Maria Anna, 1696, of which se...
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