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ALFONSO LOMBARDI
612
EQ: AC : ALMA. • VRB : SEN Bust 1., with long
hair, wearing flat cap with back-flap turned up,
and chain over robe.
Rev. None.
Arm. II, 116, 44 (124 mm.), after Mazz. I, xxxix, 1.
[a. Pl. no.]
(tz) In the market, 1926. Formerly Tacconi, Bologna,
127 mm. After-cast. The stops after VRB omitted.
(Photograph communicated by Dr. Habich.)
Bovio, who was born in 1455, lectured on law at Bologna
from 1482 to his death in 1522. An inscription commemo-
rating his services as Roman Senator under Leo X was
put up by the Romans on the Capitol in 1513 (Galletti,
Inscr. Rom., ii, p. xii, no. 24). This medal shows strong
traces of the influence of the medals attributed to Francia.
Another medal with the date MDXX1I on the obverse
below the bust to left (IACOB BOVIO SENAT ROMAN),
and, on the reverse, the arms of Rome (S.P.Q.R. bend-
wise) impaling Bovio, in a wreath, is certainly a later
restitution: Arm. II, 116, 43 (75 mm.); Brescia (Brozzoni),
73 mm.; Mazz. I, xxxviii, 3; Rizz., no. 539.
ROSSI (Bernardo de’), Legate at Bologna.
612. Obv. BER*RV*CO*B*EPS*TAR*LE*BO*VIC*
GV*ET*PRAE Bust r., wearing berretta and
mozzetta. Pearled border.
Rev. OB VIRTVTES IN FLAMIN1AM RESTITV
TAS Female figure, in antique tunic and mantle,
holding a flower, standing in car drawn r. by
an eagle and a winged dragon. Pearled border.
Arm. II, 105, 19 (66 mm.); III, 32, f. Tres. de Num. II,
xxviii, 3. Fabr., p. 93. L. Coletti in Rassegna d' Arte,
Dec. 1921, pp. 414 f. [/. Pl. no.]
(«) Berlin. Friedl., p. 176, Pl. xxxiv. (6) Another,
65-5 mm. Simon, no. 133. (c) Brescia (Tosio), 67 mm.
Rizz., no. 136. (tZ) Florence, 65 mm. Sup., no. 229.
L. Coletti, loc. cit. Good, (e) Frankfurt (Metzler),
66 mm. Catal., no. 51. (/) London, | 65-5 mm.
Keary, no. 281. S.I.M., Pl. 42, 1. (^) Milan (Med.
Mun.), | 65 mm. (h-k) Naples, 65 mm. Rin., nos.
921-4. (Z) Parma. Litta, Rossi, no. 5. (m) Vienna,
f 64-5 mm. After-cast.
And many others.
‘ Flaminia ’ is Romagna. Rossi is described as Count
of Berceto, Bishop of Treviso, papal legate at Bologna,
vicar, governor, and military commander. The allusion is
to Rossi’s repression of disturbances at Ravenna, when he
came as legate to Bologna. This was in 1519, so that the
medal cannot be by Francia. In style it is entirely similar
to that of Alidosi; and both are less bold and original than
the medals of Musotti and Ruggieri. Whoever made
them, his influence is visible in later medals of the
Bolognese school, more especially that of Francesco Guic-
ciardini (no. 625). On the various portraits of Rossi (who
was the son of Piermaria Rossi, was born in 1468, and
died in 1527), see L. Coletti in Rassegna d'Arte, Dec.
1921, pp. 407-20.
ALFONSO LOMBARDI
THE sculptor Alfonso di Niccold Cittadella, of Lucchese origin, was born about 1497;
he took the name of Lombardi from his teacher Pietro Lombardi. His earliest years
having been spent in Ferrara, he is sometimes regarded as a member of the Ferrarese
School; but his chief work was done at Bologna. Important commissions there date
from 1519, and must have been preceded by smaller works. Vasari says that in his first
youth he made innumerable portraits in little medalets of many lords and gentlemen
of his native place (by which is meant Ferrara); some of them in wax and white stucco,
seen by Vasari, represented the Prince Doria, Alfonso Duke of Ferrara, Clement VII,
the Emperor Charles V, Cardinal Ippolito de’ Medici, Bembo, Ariosto, and others. From
these small works he proceeded to marble sculpture. Vasari also mentions a stucco
sketch, on the scale of a medal, made of Charles V when he was being painted by
Titian in Bologna (1530); this was afterwards executed in marble on a large scale.
Towards the end of 1533 he went to France and soon afterwards with Cardinal Ippolito
de’Medici to Rome, where he made a number of marble portraits. He left Rome in
Aug. 1535 in anger at the loss of a commission, and returned by way of Florence (where
he received a commission for a marble portrait of the Duke Alessandro) to Bologna;
there he died, Dec. 1537.
He was also employed by Federigo II, Duke of Mantua; of two letters to the Duke
from Alfonso, one (6 May 1536) records that he had made a medal of Paul III; from
another Milanesi conjectures that he made four other medals (see below). Milanesi
unfortunately gives no reference for the former letter, nor quotes its text; the second
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612
EQ: AC : ALMA. • VRB : SEN Bust 1., with long
hair, wearing flat cap with back-flap turned up,
and chain over robe.
Rev. None.
Arm. II, 116, 44 (124 mm.), after Mazz. I, xxxix, 1.
[a. Pl. no.]
(tz) In the market, 1926. Formerly Tacconi, Bologna,
127 mm. After-cast. The stops after VRB omitted.
(Photograph communicated by Dr. Habich.)
Bovio, who was born in 1455, lectured on law at Bologna
from 1482 to his death in 1522. An inscription commemo-
rating his services as Roman Senator under Leo X was
put up by the Romans on the Capitol in 1513 (Galletti,
Inscr. Rom., ii, p. xii, no. 24). This medal shows strong
traces of the influence of the medals attributed to Francia.
Another medal with the date MDXX1I on the obverse
below the bust to left (IACOB BOVIO SENAT ROMAN),
and, on the reverse, the arms of Rome (S.P.Q.R. bend-
wise) impaling Bovio, in a wreath, is certainly a later
restitution: Arm. II, 116, 43 (75 mm.); Brescia (Brozzoni),
73 mm.; Mazz. I, xxxviii, 3; Rizz., no. 539.
ROSSI (Bernardo de’), Legate at Bologna.
612. Obv. BER*RV*CO*B*EPS*TAR*LE*BO*VIC*
GV*ET*PRAE Bust r., wearing berretta and
mozzetta. Pearled border.
Rev. OB VIRTVTES IN FLAMIN1AM RESTITV
TAS Female figure, in antique tunic and mantle,
holding a flower, standing in car drawn r. by
an eagle and a winged dragon. Pearled border.
Arm. II, 105, 19 (66 mm.); III, 32, f. Tres. de Num. II,
xxviii, 3. Fabr., p. 93. L. Coletti in Rassegna d' Arte,
Dec. 1921, pp. 414 f. [/. Pl. no.]
(«) Berlin. Friedl., p. 176, Pl. xxxiv. (6) Another,
65-5 mm. Simon, no. 133. (c) Brescia (Tosio), 67 mm.
Rizz., no. 136. (tZ) Florence, 65 mm. Sup., no. 229.
L. Coletti, loc. cit. Good, (e) Frankfurt (Metzler),
66 mm. Catal., no. 51. (/) London, | 65-5 mm.
Keary, no. 281. S.I.M., Pl. 42, 1. (^) Milan (Med.
Mun.), | 65 mm. (h-k) Naples, 65 mm. Rin., nos.
921-4. (Z) Parma. Litta, Rossi, no. 5. (m) Vienna,
f 64-5 mm. After-cast.
And many others.
‘ Flaminia ’ is Romagna. Rossi is described as Count
of Berceto, Bishop of Treviso, papal legate at Bologna,
vicar, governor, and military commander. The allusion is
to Rossi’s repression of disturbances at Ravenna, when he
came as legate to Bologna. This was in 1519, so that the
medal cannot be by Francia. In style it is entirely similar
to that of Alidosi; and both are less bold and original than
the medals of Musotti and Ruggieri. Whoever made
them, his influence is visible in later medals of the
Bolognese school, more especially that of Francesco Guic-
ciardini (no. 625). On the various portraits of Rossi (who
was the son of Piermaria Rossi, was born in 1468, and
died in 1527), see L. Coletti in Rassegna d'Arte, Dec.
1921, pp. 407-20.
ALFONSO LOMBARDI
THE sculptor Alfonso di Niccold Cittadella, of Lucchese origin, was born about 1497;
he took the name of Lombardi from his teacher Pietro Lombardi. His earliest years
having been spent in Ferrara, he is sometimes regarded as a member of the Ferrarese
School; but his chief work was done at Bologna. Important commissions there date
from 1519, and must have been preceded by smaller works. Vasari says that in his first
youth he made innumerable portraits in little medalets of many lords and gentlemen
of his native place (by which is meant Ferrara); some of them in wax and white stucco,
seen by Vasari, represented the Prince Doria, Alfonso Duke of Ferrara, Clement VII,
the Emperor Charles V, Cardinal Ippolito de’ Medici, Bembo, Ariosto, and others. From
these small works he proceeded to marble sculpture. Vasari also mentions a stucco
sketch, on the scale of a medal, made of Charles V when he was being painted by
Titian in Bologna (1530); this was afterwards executed in marble on a large scale.
Towards the end of 1533 he went to France and soon afterwards with Cardinal Ippolito
de’Medici to Rome, where he made a number of marble portraits. He left Rome in
Aug. 1535 in anger at the loss of a commission, and returned by way of Florence (where
he received a commission for a marble portrait of the Duke Alessandro) to Bologna;
there he died, Dec. 1537.
He was also employed by Federigo II, Duke of Mantua; of two letters to the Duke
from Alfonso, one (6 May 1536) records that he had made a medal of Paul III; from
another Milanesi conjectures that he made four other medals (see below). Milanesi
unfortunately gives no reference for the former letter, nor quotes its text; the second
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