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Identifier: italiamedal00fabri (find matches)
Title: Italian medals
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Fabriczy, Cornelius von, 1839-1910
Subjects: Medals Medals, Renaissance Renaissance
Publisher: London : Duckworth
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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ant—the stylistic comparison of the two works, above all theentirely peculiar treatment of the hair, falling in lank locksending in curls, and, finally, also the adoption in both of thesame material (yellow gun-metal, a material most uncommonin Italy), prove beyond doubt that the two works are due tothe same master. Our medal, indeed, as far as conception andfreedom of treatment are concerned, cannot compare with itsFlorentine sisters; nevertheless, it reproduces the characteristicfeatures vividly and with evident fidelity, and is of interest asthe only medal of the Quattrocento made by an Italian artiston this side of the Alps. Discoveries in archives have further revealed Adrianospresence at the Court of Ferdinand I. at Naples in the year1493. Among the few medals of the royal house that ap-peared at this time is one of the Crown Prince Ferdinand,afterwards the second king of the name, which in the treat-ment of the hair, the stiff poise of the head, the sharp line 136 Plate XXVII
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5 ANONYMOUS FLORENTINES, ADRIANO FIORENTINO Face p. 136 4 Florentine Medals from chin to throat, and the peculiar truncation of the bust,shows many points of resemblance to the Pfeffinger medal,even although it is blunter in the modelling. The double Vor W on the edge of the hat (also repeated in the field of thereverse) caused it to be attributed to a Medallist W. But,as the position of the mark on the hat shows, the letter moreprobably indicates some device of the prince, and consequentlydoes not contradict the possibility that in our medal we mayhave before us a second work of this kind from Adrianoshand. In this case we must, however, credit him with twoother medals. Of these one is the largest of three (diam.85 mm.) which we possess of Gioviano Pontano, the celebratedhumanist and private secretary of King Ferdinand I. For theUrania of its reverse, with the graceful little plant at her feet,undoubtedly belongs to the same hand that produced theseated figure of Abundance on the rev

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