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Manfredini, Prof. Luigi (06.12.1771 - 22.06.1840) |
Medalist and die-cutter (engraver general) at the Milan mint from 1798 to 1830. Manfredini's personal symbols are a pomegranate and an inverted cup. Manfredini was born in Bologna in 1779, then went to Milan where he started as a die engraver at the Milan mint in 1798. In 1805 he was appointed chief engraver and in 1838 he received the great gold civil honour medal with the ribbon for making the dies for the Milanese coronation medals of Ferdinand I. His medals include a medal for the Academy of Sciences in Milan (1837) and the medal for the coronation of Emperor Ferdinand I as King of Lombardo-Venetia in 1838, as well as the corresponding distribution jetons on which he worked together with Luigi Cossa (obverse). Manfredini was a professor at the Accademia di Brera, co-founder of a bronze foundry and an important medallist of his time. He died in Milan in 1840. Lit.: A. Mayr, Kaiser Ferdinand I. (1793-1875) und die Medaille. Die Medaillenproduktion am Hauptmünzamt in Wien zwischen 1835 und 1848 in kunsthistorischem und historischem Kontext, unpubl. phil. Diss. Vienna (2020) pp. 137, 186-187, 315, 522-532; E. Fiala - J. Müller - J. Raudnitz, Katalog der Münz- und Medaillenstempelsammlung im Münzkabinett des Kunsthistorischen Museum Wien IV (1906) pp. 1297-1298; L. Forrer, Biographical Dictionary of Medallists III (1907) pp. 552-555. |
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Engraver General  , Medalist |
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https://d-nb.info/gnd/116729317 |
VIAF |
http://viaf.org/viaf/17492967 |
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG111810 |
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Wikidata |
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3839816 |
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