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GIOVANNI FRANCESCO CAROTO
546-9
wearing flat cap with back-flap turned up, and
robe with falling collar.
Rev. Within a rude wreath, TERRE | FIRME a
pr|ovisor a G|ENERAL!S I MDXXII
Arm. Ill, 206, ^(30 mm.). Misread. [a. Pl. 98.]
(a) Berlin, bronze gilt, 30 mm. (Friedlander Coll.)
Burl. Mag., xvi (1909), p. 31. Boll, del Mus. Civ. di
Padova, loc. cit., p. 73, no. 3. (/>) Formerly Gutekunst,
30 mm. Arm., loc. cit. Sale Catal., Stuttgart, 1885.
This obverse was made from the preceding one by after-
casting; the head, hair, and inscription are from the old
model, the cap and robe are remodelled. The execution of
the reverse is rough, and the lettering quite different from
that of 1515. This version may be a Venetian hand.
TOMEO (Niccol6 Leonico).
546. Obv. NLEONICVS THOMOS Bust three-
quarters r. from back, head r. bald and bearded.
Rev. BENE ME RENTI Female figure (the City
of Padua) standing 1., heavily draped in tunic
and mantle, wearing mural crown, holding
wreath above the head of a small winged putto
who runs towards her.
(a) Milan, Med. Mun., «- 55-5 mm. [Pl. 98.]
Since the Aristotelian scholar Leonico Tomeo is said to
have lived nearly all his life from 1497 at Padua, this medal
may have been made there. He died shortly before 28 Apr.
1531, aged 75 yrs. 1 m. 27 days, and was buried in S. Fran-
cesco (epitaph by Bembo: Salomonius, Urb. Pat. Inscr.,
p. 338). It is true that Facciolati, Fasti Gymn. Pat., ii, 1757,
p. no, asserts that he left Padua for Venice in 1504 and
died there in 1531. In this medal he may be nearly of the
age mentioned above.
PADUA, Church of St Giustina.
S^.Obv. ySyPROSDOCIMVSaSaIVSTINAy Busts
r., jugate, of St Prosdocimus, bearded, mitred
and wearing cope, holding crozier and ewer,
and St Giustina, crowned and nimbed, holding
palm-branch in r., a dagger plunged in her
breast. Below, CyC
Rev. DEO I OPTIMO I ETaBaIVSTIEyVy | ETy
M A HOC Y T Y D ICA Y E Y ANNO | y DNI y MDXV a
and, below, a spray of foliage.
Arm. Ill, 150, g (42 mm.). [c. Pl. 98.]
(«) Brescia (Martinengo), 41 mm. Rizz., no. 202. (6) Pa-
dua, Museo Bottacin. (c) Vienna, 41-5 mm. Bronze
gilt. Arm., loc. cit. (d) G. F. Hill, f 41 mm.
Milanesi (apud Arm.) suggested that C C was the sig-
nature of Coreto Cagnoli, a Paduan goldsmith who was
working early in the sixteenth century. Regling (in Lanna
Catal., no. 357) objects that the letters are too large to
be a signature.
The church of St Giustina at Padua was begun in 1501
and soon given up; after the rejection of new designs in
1515 and 1516 it was begun again in 1521 and finished
in 1532. St Giustina, Virgin and Martyr, is the patron
saint of Padua ; St Prosdocimus was its first bishop.
Of this medal there exist a number of much later repro-
ductions, hardly earlier than the seventeenth century. The
field on both sides is stippled; ordinary stops, on the level
of the line, take the place of the triangular raised stops;
instead of the spray of foliage on the reverse are a dagger
and palm-branch passed saltire-wise through a crown ; the
rev. inscr. reads Deo Optimo et B. lustine V. et.M.hoc.
Temp, dica.er.anno Dni.MDXV.; and the whole character
of the piece is modernized. Examples are in the British
Museum (f 43-5 mm.), at Padua, and in Mr. Henry Oppen-
heimer’s Collection (f 44 mm., ex Lanna, no. 357).
RESTITUTION
PASSERA (NiccoLd).
548* Of this physician (who died some time after 1522, when
he composed his own epitaph: Scardeonius, p. 216) there
are medals in the Berlin and Correr Museums, but they
seem to me to be not earlier than the seventeenth century.
Obv. Nicolaus Passera de lanua Patavus Philosop'et Medicu'.
Bust 1., bald in front, long hair behind, in gown. Rev. Ubi.
nan. est. unus. duo. tres. quartus. Six triangles fitted
together, with nine pits sunk in them (two at the bottom,
three in the middle, four at top). Correr, 94-5 mm. Catal.,
no. 385. Bernhart in Archiv, v (1925-6), p. 82.
VERONA
GIOVANNI FRANCESCO CAROTO
VERONESE painter, born 1478-82, died 1555. He worked in Casale Monferrato for
the court between 1513 and 1518. Vasari reports that Guglielmo Marquess of Monfer-
rato made Caroto his chamberlain in 1523, and that the painter made a medal of the
Marquess. The only extant medal by Caroto is, however, that described below.
Vasari, ed. Milanesi, v, p. 286. Friedlander, Ital. Schaumunzen (1882), p. 114. Arm., Med. ital., i (1883), p. 123. A. Vesme
in Arch. Star, dell' Arte, II, i (1895), pp. 33 ff. Fabriczy, Ital. Med. (1904), p. 64. Forrer, Diet., 1(1904), p. 353. Bernath in
Thieme-Becker, Allg. Lex. d. bild. Kilnstler, vi (1912), pp. 33 f. (general bibliography). Habich, Med. d. ital. Ren. (1924), p. 106.
PALEOLOGO DI MONFERRATO (Boni-
FAZIO).
549. Obv. BON1FACIVS a GV a VII a MR MONTIS
FERRaPRIMOGENITVSaAQVENSISaCOMES: Bust
1., as a boy wearing hair in net, broad cap with
back- and fore-flaps turned up, adorned with
[
badge (saint kneeling, holding cross) and plume
in front; coat with full sleeves over pleated
shirt.
Rev. VITIORVMado MI TOR* Hercules,
nude, scourging Vice, a nude female figure,
crouchingonground, holdingpurse in r., placing
]
546-9
wearing flat cap with back-flap turned up, and
robe with falling collar.
Rev. Within a rude wreath, TERRE | FIRME a
pr|ovisor a G|ENERAL!S I MDXXII
Arm. Ill, 206, ^(30 mm.). Misread. [a. Pl. 98.]
(a) Berlin, bronze gilt, 30 mm. (Friedlander Coll.)
Burl. Mag., xvi (1909), p. 31. Boll, del Mus. Civ. di
Padova, loc. cit., p. 73, no. 3. (/>) Formerly Gutekunst,
30 mm. Arm., loc. cit. Sale Catal., Stuttgart, 1885.
This obverse was made from the preceding one by after-
casting; the head, hair, and inscription are from the old
model, the cap and robe are remodelled. The execution of
the reverse is rough, and the lettering quite different from
that of 1515. This version may be a Venetian hand.
TOMEO (Niccol6 Leonico).
546. Obv. NLEONICVS THOMOS Bust three-
quarters r. from back, head r. bald and bearded.
Rev. BENE ME RENTI Female figure (the City
of Padua) standing 1., heavily draped in tunic
and mantle, wearing mural crown, holding
wreath above the head of a small winged putto
who runs towards her.
(a) Milan, Med. Mun., «- 55-5 mm. [Pl. 98.]
Since the Aristotelian scholar Leonico Tomeo is said to
have lived nearly all his life from 1497 at Padua, this medal
may have been made there. He died shortly before 28 Apr.
1531, aged 75 yrs. 1 m. 27 days, and was buried in S. Fran-
cesco (epitaph by Bembo: Salomonius, Urb. Pat. Inscr.,
p. 338). It is true that Facciolati, Fasti Gymn. Pat., ii, 1757,
p. no, asserts that he left Padua for Venice in 1504 and
died there in 1531. In this medal he may be nearly of the
age mentioned above.
PADUA, Church of St Giustina.
S^.Obv. ySyPROSDOCIMVSaSaIVSTINAy Busts
r., jugate, of St Prosdocimus, bearded, mitred
and wearing cope, holding crozier and ewer,
and St Giustina, crowned and nimbed, holding
palm-branch in r., a dagger plunged in her
breast. Below, CyC
Rev. DEO I OPTIMO I ETaBaIVSTIEyVy | ETy
M A HOC Y T Y D ICA Y E Y ANNO | y DNI y MDXV a
and, below, a spray of foliage.
Arm. Ill, 150, g (42 mm.). [c. Pl. 98.]
(«) Brescia (Martinengo), 41 mm. Rizz., no. 202. (6) Pa-
dua, Museo Bottacin. (c) Vienna, 41-5 mm. Bronze
gilt. Arm., loc. cit. (d) G. F. Hill, f 41 mm.
Milanesi (apud Arm.) suggested that C C was the sig-
nature of Coreto Cagnoli, a Paduan goldsmith who was
working early in the sixteenth century. Regling (in Lanna
Catal., no. 357) objects that the letters are too large to
be a signature.
The church of St Giustina at Padua was begun in 1501
and soon given up; after the rejection of new designs in
1515 and 1516 it was begun again in 1521 and finished
in 1532. St Giustina, Virgin and Martyr, is the patron
saint of Padua ; St Prosdocimus was its first bishop.
Of this medal there exist a number of much later repro-
ductions, hardly earlier than the seventeenth century. The
field on both sides is stippled; ordinary stops, on the level
of the line, take the place of the triangular raised stops;
instead of the spray of foliage on the reverse are a dagger
and palm-branch passed saltire-wise through a crown ; the
rev. inscr. reads Deo Optimo et B. lustine V. et.M.hoc.
Temp, dica.er.anno Dni.MDXV.; and the whole character
of the piece is modernized. Examples are in the British
Museum (f 43-5 mm.), at Padua, and in Mr. Henry Oppen-
heimer’s Collection (f 44 mm., ex Lanna, no. 357).
RESTITUTION
PASSERA (NiccoLd).
548* Of this physician (who died some time after 1522, when
he composed his own epitaph: Scardeonius, p. 216) there
are medals in the Berlin and Correr Museums, but they
seem to me to be not earlier than the seventeenth century.
Obv. Nicolaus Passera de lanua Patavus Philosop'et Medicu'.
Bust 1., bald in front, long hair behind, in gown. Rev. Ubi.
nan. est. unus. duo. tres. quartus. Six triangles fitted
together, with nine pits sunk in them (two at the bottom,
three in the middle, four at top). Correr, 94-5 mm. Catal.,
no. 385. Bernhart in Archiv, v (1925-6), p. 82.
VERONA
GIOVANNI FRANCESCO CAROTO
VERONESE painter, born 1478-82, died 1555. He worked in Casale Monferrato for
the court between 1513 and 1518. Vasari reports that Guglielmo Marquess of Monfer-
rato made Caroto his chamberlain in 1523, and that the painter made a medal of the
Marquess. The only extant medal by Caroto is, however, that described below.
Vasari, ed. Milanesi, v, p. 286. Friedlander, Ital. Schaumunzen (1882), p. 114. Arm., Med. ital., i (1883), p. 123. A. Vesme
in Arch. Star, dell' Arte, II, i (1895), pp. 33 ff. Fabriczy, Ital. Med. (1904), p. 64. Forrer, Diet., 1(1904), p. 353. Bernath in
Thieme-Becker, Allg. Lex. d. bild. Kilnstler, vi (1912), pp. 33 f. (general bibliography). Habich, Med. d. ital. Ren. (1924), p. 106.
PALEOLOGO DI MONFERRATO (Boni-
FAZIO).
549. Obv. BON1FACIVS a GV a VII a MR MONTIS
FERRaPRIMOGENITVSaAQVENSISaCOMES: Bust
1., as a boy wearing hair in net, broad cap with
back- and fore-flaps turned up, adorned with
[
badge (saint kneeling, holding cross) and plume
in front; coat with full sleeves over pleated
shirt.
Rev. VITIORVMado MI TOR* Hercules,
nude, scourging Vice, a nude female figure,
crouchingonground, holdingpurse in r., placing
]