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PART I
GIOV. BATTISTA PERUZZI DE’ BARTOLELLI
THE son of Tomaso di Bartolello, nicknamed Aofa, of Fano, is mentioned in documents
from 1465 until his death in 1482. The Parma MS. of the Isotteo written by him is dated
1455. Druggist, cartographer, painter, and sculptor, he was also depositario of the
Comune of Fano and superintendent of the fabric of the porto.
The pretty medal described below, with its excellent lettering, recalls the work of
Matteo de’ Pasti (who died in 1467 or 1468); and as the date 1474 on the cartellino is
merely incised, and the subject looks young, the medal may have been made earlier
than that year. The objection to the attribution to Pasti, proposed by Masetti, is thus
removed. Castellani, who was at first inclined to accept Masetti’s attribution, now
suggests that Bartolelli himself may be the author. Another medallist whose influence
is visible is Guacialoti; cp. the nude figures on brackets on his medals of Palmieri and
Estouteville (Pl. 125, no. 742; 126, no. 750). This eclecticism perhaps favours an attribu-
tion to Bartolelli himself; but the good qualities of the medal show that he can have
been no mere amateur.
BARTOLELLI (Giovanni Battista Per-
UZZI J6£a de’).
192. Obv. -HOVANNESPERVTIVSAO^ADEBARTH
OLELIS Bust 1., youthful, with zazzera, wearing
close-fitting dress; below, a panel, incised on
which 1+74’.
Rev. MEMOR foederis Bartolelli, nude,
standing to front on a bracket, resting r. on
a sceptre terminating in P and holding in 1. the
letter A.
(a) Giuseppe Castellani, Fano, lead, 40 mm. L. Masetti
in L’Anminciatore, Fano (1879), no. 40; cited by Castel-
lani in Riv. Ital.f iv (1891), pp. 491 If. Rass. bibl. dell'
arte ital., xiii (1910), pp. 127-8. C. Ricci, 11 Tempio
Malatestiano [1924], p. 51. [Pl. 35.]
The letters on the sceptre and in his hand are doubtless
the initials of Perutius and Ao'£a.
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PART I
GIOV. BATTISTA PERUZZI DE’ BARTOLELLI
THE son of Tomaso di Bartolello, nicknamed Aofa, of Fano, is mentioned in documents
from 1465 until his death in 1482. The Parma MS. of the Isotteo written by him is dated
1455. Druggist, cartographer, painter, and sculptor, he was also depositario of the
Comune of Fano and superintendent of the fabric of the porto.
The pretty medal described below, with its excellent lettering, recalls the work of
Matteo de’ Pasti (who died in 1467 or 1468); and as the date 1474 on the cartellino is
merely incised, and the subject looks young, the medal may have been made earlier
than that year. The objection to the attribution to Pasti, proposed by Masetti, is thus
removed. Castellani, who was at first inclined to accept Masetti’s attribution, now
suggests that Bartolelli himself may be the author. Another medallist whose influence
is visible is Guacialoti; cp. the nude figures on brackets on his medals of Palmieri and
Estouteville (Pl. 125, no. 742; 126, no. 750). This eclecticism perhaps favours an attribu-
tion to Bartolelli himself; but the good qualities of the medal show that he can have
been no mere amateur.
BARTOLELLI (Giovanni Battista Per-
UZZI J6£a de’).
192. Obv. -HOVANNESPERVTIVSAO^ADEBARTH
OLELIS Bust 1., youthful, with zazzera, wearing
close-fitting dress; below, a panel, incised on
which 1+74’.
Rev. MEMOR foederis Bartolelli, nude,
standing to front on a bracket, resting r. on
a sceptre terminating in P and holding in 1. the
letter A.
(a) Giuseppe Castellani, Fano, lead, 40 mm. L. Masetti
in L’Anminciatore, Fano (1879), no. 40; cited by Castel-
lani in Riv. Ital.f iv (1891), pp. 491 If. Rass. bibl. dell'
arte ital., xiii (1910), pp. 127-8. C. Ricci, 11 Tempio
Malatestiano [1924], p. 51. [Pl. 35.]
The letters on the sceptre and in his hand are doubtless
the initials of Perutius and Ao'£a.
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