PARTENSTEIN, ANTON (Austr.). Mint-master at Warsaw, 1772- 1774. His initials A. P. occur on the coinage.
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
Mint master:
In medieval and early modern Germany, the Münzmeister ("mint master", the Latin term is monetarius) was the director or administrator of a mint, a moneyer with responsibility for the minting of coins, or specie. His duties were defined differently at different locations and ages.
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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ONATAS
ONATAS (Greek). Gem-engraver of the fourth century B. C. His signature occurs on a Scaraboid in the British Museum, described thus in Murray and Smith's Catalogue (n° 1161): Victory, standing to r., adjusting a trophy ; drapery hangs loosely on lower limbs; beside trophy, a spear, barbed at each end; attached to the spear is a waving scroll, inscribed : ONATA, the name of the sculptor Onatas? Chalcedony. It is reproduced in King, Antique Gents, 1872, II, pl. 26, fig. 8. Ex. Castellani Collectio...
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ONATAS (Greek). Gem-engraver of the fourth century B. C. His signature occurs on a Scaraboid in the British Museum, described thus in Murray and Smith's Catalogue (n° 1161): Victory, standing to r., adjusting a trophy ; drapery hangs loosely on lower limbs; beside trophy, a spear, barbed at each end; attached to the spear is a waving scroll, inscribed : ONATA, the name of the sculptor Onatas? Chalcedony. It is reproduced in King, Antique Gents, 1872, II, pl. 26, fig. 8. Ex. Castellani Collectio...
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