. Italian medals . rist Panziruolo of Reggio, struck in1563; and two others of Antonfrancesco Doni and an unknownGiulio Rossi of Carpi. Antonios remaining pieces (forty-onecertain and four ascribed to him) belong to his sojourn inPrague, where he occupied a privileged position underMaximilian II. and depicted the entire Court circle, from theEmperor (PI. XL., 3) down to the Court architect, Ferra-bosco, and the Court physician, Thomas Jordan. Thecharacteristic of all these works is a most pleasing combinationof the aristocratic character of the Roman Court, as expressedin bearing and external
. Italian medals . rist Panziruolo of Reggio, struck in1563; and two others of Antonfrancesco Doni and an unknownGiulio Rossi of Carpi. Antonios remaining pieces (forty-onecertain and four ascribed to him) belong to his sojourn inPrague, where he occupied a privileged position underMaximilian II. and depicted the entire Court circle, from theEmperor (PI. XL., 3) down to the Court architect, Ferra-bosco, and the Court physician, Thomas Jordan. Thecharacteristic of all these works is a most pleasing combinationof the aristocratic character of the Roman Court, as expressedin bearing and external disposition, with an intimate study ofnature, probably strengthened by the example of Germanmedals, which comes out especially in the rendering of thephysiognomy.^ On Antonios death his son Alessandro (1580-1653) tookhis fathers place in the favour of Rudolf II. and of Rudolfssuccessor, Matthias. He was especially esteemed for his 1 G. Habich, in Helbings Monatsherichte iiber KunstwissenscJiaft, i. p. 402. Plate XL. 3 POMPEO LEONI. ANTONIO and ALESS. ABONDIO Jiice p. 2IO Padua and Milan portraits embossed in wax and then painted ; as a medallisthe won repute only when after the death of the EmperorMatthias he entered the service of Maximilian of paid and honoured in the foremost circles as thetype of the accomplished Court artist of the Seicento, heproduced a great number of medals of the electoral prince;of Albert of Leuchtenberg ; of Ferdinand Archbishop ofCologne; Albert of Freising ; and many others. Theyare all marked, like those of his father, by a distinguishedconception, equally removed from all courtly stiffness andfrom insipid idealisation. More especially in the intellectualconception of the person depicted is revealed the lofty artisticnature, the great gratia which his contemporaries extol inhim. We must restrict ourselves to the reproduction of hishighly spirited portrait of Maximilian at an advanced age(PI. XL., 2), since, strictly speaking,
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