Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.17685/Peristil.63.3
Giulio Clovio on Medals and on a Medallion
Ivan Mirnik
orcid.org/0000-0002-7275-9142
; independent researcher
Abstract
During G. G. Clovio lifetime only two medals were made or perhaps just one in two variants with his portrait. Only one exists today, and it is kept at the Coins and Medals Department of the British Museum in London. In 1632 a representative marble epitaph consisting of an inscription topped by the miniaturist’s portrait on an oval medallion was unveiled in Rome. In the second half of the 17th century, an untrained medallist made a medal with the bust of a person whose profile in no way resembles Clovio, although the inscription says the opposite. During the second half of the 20th century, some Croatian medallists (I. Belobrajdić, Z. Brkić, A. Kukec, K. Kovačić, D. Mataušić) dedicated their works to Clovio, either with his portrait or with reminiscences of some of his very numerous works.
Keywords
Giulio Giorgio Clovio; medals; numismatics; portrait
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254989
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Publication date:
31.3.2021.
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