. Italian medals . ween 1517 and 1522, and whom besides Caradosso can we cite who could have made them in Rome during this interval ? For the works of the master who was active here during the same period, and whom as the last of the Roman medallists we have now to consider, differ too much from the pieces in question to allow him to be taken into consideration. This master is Gian Pietro Crivelli (1463-1552), descended from the Milanese family of the name, in whom the goldsmiths art had been hereditary for generations, and who were able to boast of having given a pope to the Church in Urban I
. Italian medals . ween 1517 and 1522, and whom besides Caradosso can we cite who could have made them in Rome during this interval ? For the works of the master who was active here during the same period, and whom as the last of the Roman medallists we have now to consider, differ too much from the pieces in question to allow him to be taken into consideration. This master is Gian Pietro Crivelli (1463-1552), descended from the Milanese family of the name, in whom the goldsmiths art had been hereditary for generations, and who were able to boast of having given a pope to the Church in Urban III. as early as 1185. Our master, like so many companions of his craft from North Italy and Florence, had migrated to the Paradise of Goldsmiths, as Rome of the Renaissance has appropriately been called, before 1508, in order there to acquire renown and wealth, and in both respects was eminently successful. For, on the one hand, he became President of his Guild and papal Cavaliere, and was awarded the praise of 172. 5 CARADOSSO, GIAN PIETRO CRIVELLI /•Vice p. 172 1 The Medallists in Rome celeberrimus in urhe aurifex, as he is styled in a document ;on the other, he acquired property outside the gates of Romeand several houses within the city, of which the dwelling inthe Via de Banchi, which he built for himself in 1539 when anold man of seventy-five, is still preserved. The Turin Cabinetpossesses a unique piece in a medal with his portrait (, 5), as is shown by his name signed in a cartoucheon the reverse. Since he there appears as a man of fifty atleast, it must have been produced during his Roman period,and is indeed probably a work of his own hand. For theunique medal of the Milanese provost, Benedetto Crivelli,evidently a relation of our Gian Pietro, preserved in theBrera, is in all points so closely related to that of Gian Pietrothat the same artist must be accepted for both. And as onemedal was cast in Milan and the other in Rome, whom can wewith greater probabi
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