This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... of work done in a more peris able medium. Very different is this feelin from that of the earlier masters, to whom, even if they did not use t e waste-wax method, destroying the model entirely, the model was nevertheless only a stage in the production of the medal. 1 Hill, Portrait Medals of Ital. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... of work done in a more peris able medium. Very different is this feelin from that of the earlier masters, to whom, even if they did not use t e waste-wax method, destroying the model entirely, the model was nevertheless only a stage in the production of the medal. 1 Hill, Portrait Medals of Ital. Artists, _ 1 Archiv Medaillen-u. Plakettenkunde, PP_ 77 1_ 1. pp. 73 H., 122 ff. It is true that we have no definite statement by any artist which justifies the distinction which we have drawn. But we can, I think, safel conjecture it from the varying styles, and support our conjecture by the patent fact that now in the sixteenth century not only were wax models, from which medals had been cast, preserved, repaired, coloured, and otherwise ornamented, but actually the making of wax portraits, without any view to the casting of medals, was developed as an independent art. Leone Leoni 1 was born about 1509, probably at Arezzo; he calls himself Aretinus, indeed, which should suffice for us, but Menaggio has also been claimed as his birthplace. His life was a changeful one. From November 1537 to 1540 he was employed as die engraver to the Papal mint. It was he who succeeded in causing the imprisonment of his rival Benvenuto Cellini in 1538. Two years later he committed a violent assault on a German jeweller (Pellegrino de' Leuti) in the Pope's employment, and was himself in consequence committed to the galleys. But Andrea Doria, the great adm1ral of Genoa, procured his release.1 From 1542 to 1545, and from 1550 until his death in 1590, he worked for the Milanese mint; but he also executed commissions elsewhere, as at Venice, Parma, and Rome. In 1549 the Em eror Charles V invited him to Brussels, and ennobled him. On a me al, once if not...
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