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Cossa, Luigi (1789-1867) |
Medalist and die-engraver (engraver general). Cossa was born in Cernusio in 1789. From 1820 he was an engraver's assistant at the mint in Milan, where he was also a pupil of Luigi Manfredini. From 1825 provisional engraver, from 1829 second mint engraver and from 1841 first engraver in Milan. Cossa was called to Vienna for the selection of a suitable portrait of Emperor Ferdinand I for the two-florin piece. He died in Milan in 1867. Cossa produced, among other things, a medal for the coronation of Emperor Ferdinand I as King of Lombardo-Venetia in 1838 and worked together with Luigi Manfredini on the distribution jetons of the Milan coronation (reverse). 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. 162, 315, 531, 533, 571; L. Forrer, Biographical Dictionary of Medallists I (1904) p. 459; E. Fiala - J. Müller - J. Raudnitz, Katalog der Münz- und Medaillenstempelsammlung im Münzkabinett des Kunsthistorischen Museum Wien IV (1906) p. 1219. |
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Engraver General  , Medalist |
GND |
https://d-nb.info/gnd/128575093 |
VIAF |
http://viaf.org/viaf/10901856 |
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