PASINGER, HANS (Anstr.). Mint-master at Landshut, circ. 1442. Several other members of the same family were employed at the mint about that time in various capacities.
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.
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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ONESAS
ONESAS (Greek). Gem-engraver of the fourth century B.C. His signature occurs on two gems in the Florence Museum : Muse leaning against cippus and tuning her lyre; yellow antique paste, 26 X 19 mill., already described by Agostini, 1657-1659. The authenticity of this paste is beyond question; it was probably copied from an original which is now lost. Furtwängler points out the general resemblance of the type with the Venus Genetrix of Alkamenes. A copy of this gem, signed Allion, is modern (B. M...
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ONESAS (Greek). Gem-engraver of the fourth century B.C. His signature occurs on two gems in the Florence Museum : Muse leaning against cippus and tuning her lyre; yellow antique paste, 26 X 19 mill., already described by Agostini, 1657-1659. The authenticity of this paste is beyond question; it was probably copied from an original which is now lost. Furtwängler points out the general resemblance of the type with the Venus Genetrix of Alkamenes. A copy of this gem, signed Allion, is modern (B. M...
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