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 ...

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with Renaud de Gondri, I8. June I373-27. June I376 and again,
6. November 1376-27 June 1377.
FAIVRE, FERDINAND (French). Contemporary Sculptor and Metalchaser, born at Marseilles; pupil of Cavelier. At the Salon of 1892,
he exhibited a Portrait-medallion in silver of Mme Mewes.
FALCAO, BRAS (Portug.). Goldsmith, appointed Assayer at the
Lisbon Mint, Io. June 1617.
FALCAO, DOMINGOS (Portug.). Mint-master at Lisbon, I623-I 641.
FALCKNER, JOHANN KARL (Germ.) of Nuremberg; Mint-master at
Breuberg-Schillingsftirst, 68 5.
FALCONE of Pistoia (Ital.). Mint-master at Antwerp, second third
of xivth. century.
FALEIRO,JOAO (Portul.). Goldsmith and Coiner, appointed in
1524 as Assayer at the Lisbon Mint.
FALET, JOSEPH (lAmer.). Die-sinker of the end of the eighteenth
century; author of a Portrait-medal of George Washington, I783.
FALIER, GIOVANNI (Ital.). Medallist of the first half of the sixteenth century, by whom there was, in the Simon collection at Berlin, a Portrait-medal of Presbyter Marcus; the medal is signed:
IOANNIS.FALETRO, and is reproduced by Bode in Zur neuesten
Forschulng auf dent Gebiete der italienischen Medaillenkunde, I903.
The signature m F (IO. F.) appears also on a well-known medal of
Andrea Gritti, procurator of St. Mark's (Hill and Rosenheim, Some
Italian Medals, Burlington Magazine, Nov. I907):
"Dr. Bode was the first to publish a medal with the full signature IOANNIS FALETRO. It is a unique medal of a Presbyter Marcus
in the Simon collection at Berlin. The artist's name is stated, on
Dr. Ludwig's authority, to have been Giovanni Falier. This is not,
however, the only work that we have from his hand; for the signature 0 F, which appears on a well-known medal of Andrea Gritti,
procurator of S. Mark's, is his. The 0 is no Greek letter, as has
usually been supposed, but is a monogram of the letters I 0. On
good specimens it will be seen that the lower part of the ring goes
over, the upper part under, the vertical stroke, showing that we
have here not one letter, but two; so that the signature is really
10. F. As regards style, there is a very distinct resemblance between
the obverses of the Presbyter Marcus and the Gritti medals, in relief,
in composition, and in the treatment of the hair.
"The date of the Gritti medal must be fixed between 50o9,

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