Naslov
Johann Franz Neidinger and the Barbarigo Medals.

Autori
Mirnik, Ivan

Izvornik
Medal (0263-7707) 28 (1996); 71-83

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
medalja; Neidinger Johann Franz; Barbarigo (obitelj); Barbarigo Giovanni Francesco; Audenaerde Robert van; Catti Dr.Juraj; Venecija
(medals; Neidinger Johann Franz; Barbarigo (family); Barbarigo Giovanni Francesco; Audenaerde Robert van; Venice; Catti Dr.Juraj)

Sažetak
Some of the major old collections of medals (Venice, Milan, Trieste, Vienna, London, Padua, Zagreb etc.) contain a number of massive cast-bronze medals, 55-62 mm in diameter, signed I.F.Neidinger or Neidinger, forming a metallic history. Probaly late in the 17th c. cardinal Gian Francesco Barbarigo (Venice, 1658 - Padua, 1730) ordered a series of historical medals from Neidinger. At the same time, the cardinal must have also given identical instructions to another, much greater artist, the Belgian painter and engraver Robert van Audenaerde (Gent, 1663 - 1743) to prepare a series of engravings depicting the same medals, in order to have them published in a splendid book Numismata virorum illustrium ex Barbadica gente. Audenaerde made all the engravings, including the head ornament, enframing the drawings of the 85 medals, the initial letter and the vignette on the other page. The book has three parts, published in 1731, 1760 and c.1790. Neidinger's medals slightly differ from those as depicted by Audenaerde. Little is known about Johann Franz Neidinger (Nuremberg, c.1750 - Venice c.1720), the father, and even less about his son Giuseppe, who, for a long time were thought to be one and the same person. The father's activity in Venice fell between 1672 and 1720 and his son's most between c. 1720 and c. 1750/1760. Some medals by Neidinger were struck, and so were the oselle of the dogaressa Elisabetta Quirini Valier (1694) - Neidinger was at his best as portraitist of contemporaries, historical medals fully display his defaults. None of the authors discussing the Neidinger opus considered it to be of great merit.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Arheologija

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