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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of the Duke Cosimo I. Fabriczy calls him " Der fruchtbarste der
florentinischen Cinquecento medailleure, Pastorino ausgenommen ".
He must have left Rome in his early youth, and probably worked
also in Northern Italy, as the number of his Milanese and Genoese
medals seems to indicate, and in 1575 he was for a short time
employed at the Papal Zecca. However, from I55o until his death
in I584, Galeotti was in the service of the Mint of Florence. Vide
Fabriczy, Medaillen der italienischen Renaissance.
GALLARDO DEL PINO, JOSt (Span.). Medallist of the second
half of the nineteenth century; a native of Malaga. Author of the
medal commemorating the Visit of Queen Isabella II. to that city in
8r66. Worked at the Mint. By him are also: Visit of Isabella II. to
Andalusia and Murcia, 1862; - Regional Exhibition at Cadiz,
1876; - Medal of Merit of Cadiz, I88I, etc.
BIBLIOGRAPHY. - Antonio Vives, Medallas de la Casa de Borbon., I916.
GALLE, ANDRt (B.D.M., Vol. II, p. 194). Additional medals:
Faculte de medecine, Paris, I809; - Ambulances municipales du
IXe arrondissement; - Page 196 illustrates medal to Mirabeau. I
have in my cabinet one with same obv. but rev. reading "PUR/
METAL DE/CLOCHE FRAPPE/PAR LES ARTISTES/REUNIS DE LYON/LE XXIV.
7.Bre/L'AN IV DE LA/LIBERTE/Ier DE L'EGALITE/. (Note of R.J.
Eidlit().
GALLE, ANTOINE (French). Brother of Andre Galle, and also an
Engraver on metal. A second brother JEAN BAPTISTE exercised a
similar profession.
GALLE, BARTHELEMY (French). Engraver of St. Etienne, who
settled at Lyons in 1773 and worked there as a jeweller. Between
I76I and 1775 he executed some medals. His son ANDRt GALLE
became a renowned Medallist.
GALLE, GUILLAUME (Belg.). Mint-master at Bruges, 20. December
I700 to 4. July 1702.
GALLI, ERNESTO (B. D. M., Vol. II, p. 198). By this Engraver is
also a Portrait-medal of Dr Giovanni Rasori, of Milan.
GALLI, GUIDO (Ital.). Contemporary Sculptor of Rome, by whom
I have seen a Portrait-medallion in bronze of Pope Pius X., which
was exhibited at the Italian Exhibition, Earl's Court.
GALOPIN, NICOLAS (French). Mint-master at Cremieu, 1532-35.
GALVIEN, A. (Span.). Signature on a medal of the National Naval
Exhibition at Cadiz, 1887.
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