Fabriczy, Cornelius von, 1839-1910 · London : Duckworth · leaf 262
portrait ofhis young wife, must have been produced soon after 1565. Inthe dry precision of the treatment of both portraits we perceiveonly too plainly that, while engaged on them, the artist keptthe intention of making them serve for the dies of coins onlytoo exclusively before his eyes. That he… … Medals of the Medici of the celebrated historian Benedetto Varchi (PI. XXXV., 5).Poggini spent the last five years of his life in Rome as Masterof the Papal Mint. To this period belong the ten medals ofSixtus V. (PI. XXXV., 6), of the Popes sister, and of NiccoloTodini, the Governor of S. Angelo ;…
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