PAROLETTI (Ital.). Director of the Mint at Turin, from an XI of the First French Republic to 1813. His privy mark is a Heart.
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
OLIVIER, GILBERT
OLIVIER, GILBERT (French). Medallist ; son of Alexandre Olivier and Marguerite de Héry. He died in 1608, after a few months' tenure of office as " Maître garde et conducteur des engins de la monnaie du moulin de Paris". There is a record of a payment made to him in 1608 of 27 livres for Piedforts, which are probably the well-known Piedforts, dated 1607, and described in Hoffmann, Monnaies royales de France, p. 144 sqq. Pl.LXXIX sqq. : Henry IV., Al. Piedfort Ecu d'or (2 var.); — Piedfort Half E...
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OLIVIER, GILBERT (French). Medallist ; son of Alexandre Olivier and Marguerite de Héry. He died in 1608, after a few months' tenure of office as " Maître garde et conducteur des engins de la monnaie du moulin de Paris". There is a record of a payment made to him in 1608 of 27 livres for Piedforts, which are probably the well-known Piedforts, dated 1607, and described in Hoffmann, Monnaies royales de France, p. 144 sqq. Pl.LXXIX sqq. : Henry IV., Al. Piedfort Ecu d'or (2 var.); — Piedfort Half E...
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OLIVIER, RENÉ
OLIVIER, RENÉ (French). Son of Alexandre Olivier and Marguerite de Héry; Engraver at the "Monnaie des Étuves", Paris, circ. 1607 — † 1628. He was appointed " Maître ouvrier, garde et conducteur des engins de la monnaie du moulin", after the death of his brother Gilbert. In conjunction with Pierre Regnier, he signed in 1624 a petition to the State Council in opposition to Nicholas Briot. He was assassinated in Paris, 18. November 1628. Mazerolle suggests the attribution to this Engraver of the fo...
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OLIVIER, RENÉ (French). Son of Alexandre Olivier and Marguerite de Héry; Engraver at the "Monnaie des Étuves", Paris, circ. 1607 — † 1628. He was appointed " Maître ouvrier, garde et conducteur des engins de la monnaie du moulin", after the death of his brother Gilbert. In conjunction with Pierre Regnier, he signed in 1624 a petition to the State Council in opposition to Nicholas Briot. He was assassinated in Paris, 18. November 1628. Mazerolle suggests the attribution to this Engraver of the fo...
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OLRYET, FLORENTIN
OLRYET, FLORENTIN (French). Goldsmith, and Mint-engraver at Nancy, from about 1514 to 1561 . He worked for three successive Dukes of Lorraine; Anthony, Francis I., and Charles III. The first mention of his name in Mint documents occurs under date 1514/15, where it is recorded that he cut the dies fot the first gold Florin of Lorraine. B. Fillon, in his Catalogue of the Rousseau Collection, 1860, ascribed the large Portrait-thaler of Anthony (Saulcy, pl. XVI, fig. 2), Teston (Saulcy, pl. XVI, fig...
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OLRYET, FLORENTIN (French). Goldsmith, and Mint-engraver at Nancy, from about 1514 to 1561 . He worked for three successive Dukes of Lorraine; Anthony, Francis I., and Charles III. The first mention of his name in Mint documents occurs under date 1514/15, where it is recorded that he cut the dies fot the first gold Florin of Lorraine. B. Fillon, in his Catalogue of the Rousseau Collection, 1860, ascribed the large Portrait-thaler of Anthony (Saulcy, pl. XVI, fig. 2), Teston (Saulcy, pl. XVI, fig...
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OLYMPIOS
OLYMPIOS (Greek). Gem-engraver of the second half of the fourth century B.C. A carnelian intaglio, in the Berlin Museum, representing Eros bending his bow, bears this artist's full signature, O?YM?IO?. Furtwängler compares the remarkable type of this gem with the archers on a cup of Duris, and the figure of Ulysses on a vase of the Berlin Museum, which apparently reproduces a pictorial composition of Polygnotos. This intaglio came from Athens. Prof. Furtwängler remarks: " Obwohl dieser Künstler...
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OLYMPIOS (Greek). Gem-engraver of the second half of the fourth century B.C. A carnelian intaglio, in the Berlin Museum, representing Eros bending his bow, bears this artist's full signature, O?YM?IO?. Furtwängler compares the remarkable type of this gem with the archers on a cup of Duris, and the figure of Ulysses on a vase of the Berlin Museum, which apparently reproduces a pictorial composition of Polygnotos. This intaglio came from Athens. Prof. Furtwängler remarks: " Obwohl dieser Künstler...
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