Biographical dictionary of medallists: coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, &c., ancient and modern, with references to their works B. C. 500-A. D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer ...

-97 -BORGHIGIANI, FRANCESCO (B.D.M., Vol. I, I904, p. 2i8). Born
at Florence on 28. May 1727; " went to Rome in I7 f, whence
he moved to Livorno and cut many gems, notably a Roman Consul
in plasma and a cameo head of Faustina. Returning to Florence in
I752, he attained high celebrity under the patronage of the painter,
Ignatius Hughford, and did a copy of the Pitti Bacchante, a female
head in jacinth, a Phocion, a Judgment of Paris, a cameo head of
Christ, a cameo skull and cross-bones and many other fine works"
(Osborne Duffield, Engraved Gems, p. I85).
BORGLUM, JOHN GUTZON DE LA MOTHE (Amer.). Gutzon Borglum
was born in Idaho, March 25, 1867. Studied art in San Francisco.
Went to Paris in 1890, where he studied at the Academie Julien
and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He settled in New York in I902.
He has been the sculptor for the cathedral of St. John the Divine
and has executed the gargoyles on the Princeton class of '79 dormitory. He is represented by two bronze groups in the Metropolitan
Museum. At the New York International Medallic Exhibition,
March I9Io, he exhibited the Medal presented to Winthrop Ames,
Esq., by the directors of the New Theatre, and a model in plaster
of same.
By him is also a medal of the IX. International Red Cross Conference, Washington, 1912 (4 varieties); - Badge for Masonic
Grand Lodge of New York, I914; A. (5I mill.); - The New
York ' Evening Mail' Medal for Athletics, illustrated in The
Numismatist, 1915, p. 363, and struck by the Medallic Art Co. of
New York City; - Membership Medal of the American Numismatic Society, I9I0; 77 mill.; dies by Tiffany & Co; - David
Livingstone, Centenary Medal of the American Geographical
Society; 76 mill.; - New York City Independance Day Award,
1915; jE. 38 mill.
BORGOGNE, ANDREA (B.D. M., Vol. I, 1904, p. 218). "Flourished
at Florence about I670 and cut many intaglios: death's-heads in
ruby, a sun in rock-crystal for a watch-case, a true lovers'-knot,
also in rock-crystal, a tiger recumbent with a thyrsos and broken
dart, and, of course, heads" (Duffield, Engraved Gems, p. I79).
BORNEMANN, RUDOLF (B.D.M., Vol. I, I904, p. 2I8). This
Engraver's signature occurs also on a medal commemorating the
Accession of Duke Ernest Augustus of Brunswick and Laneburg,
I68o; PL,. VARIIS IN MOTIBUS EADEM. The coins issued under his
supervision are usually signed RB.
BORNER, JOHANN BAPTIST (B.D.M., Vol. I, T904, p. 218).
Born at Lucerne on 7. August 1649; he and his brother Peter
Paul B. held the title of "Iconista Pontificum ". He is the author
also of a medal of Innocent XII., 1693.
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