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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was presented by Kaiser Francis Joseph to Queen Victoria in 8 5o,
and executed the shield of honour which was given by the Austrian
army to General Count O'Donnell.
Further details concerning Josef Cesar's activity as a Sculptor,
etc., will be found in F. Pollak's art. in Dr Thieme's Allgem.
Kiinstler-Lexikon, VI, 305.
CESARINI, FRANCESCO (B. D. M., Vol. I, 1904, p. 389). Medallist
and Mint-engraver in Rome, who worked under Hamerani, I670 -I680. There is a medal of Innocent XI, by him signed F. C. F.,
which shows on P1L a Procession in front of the Casa Santa at
Loreto.
CESATI, ALESSANDRO (B.D.M., Vol. I, I904, p. 389). G. F. Hill,
in Dr Thieme's Allgei. Kii1istler-Lexikoln, gives further notes on
the activity and work of this artist. Alessandro Cesati (not Cesari)
was the son of an Italian father (a Milanese?) and a Cypriote
mother and was probably born in Cyprus at the beginning of the
sixteenth century; settled in Rome previous to 538, where through
the intermediary of his friend Annibale Caro he entered the service
of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. To the protection of the latter he
owed his nomination as Canonicus of Nicosia (in I 40 or before)
and appointment of administrator of the Papal mint. This office he
held until I56I. Besides the papal coins, Cesati also issued those of
Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Camerino (I1542), and possibly also those
of Pierluigi Farnese for Castro. Cardinal Farnese employed him also
after the death of Paul III., although Cesati had offered in April 1549
to sell to the Duke of Florence his coining process. - The Papal
Jubilee medals and the medal of Pope Julius III. of 1550 are by this
artist, who worked at intervals for the Mint of Parma between 5 5 7
and 1559. In August I56I he went to Piedmont, where on the
Io. December of the same year he was appointed Ducal Mintmaster. His name is mentioned for the last time in October i564,
on the occasion of his leaving Venice to return to his family in
Cyprus.
Cesati, whose name occurs as Il Greco and Il Grechetto, appears
to have engraved two portraits of Henri II, one a cameo, the other
an intaglio; the former is signed on the back AAE-ANAPOE
ErOIEI.
The conjecture that some of the stones signed EAAHN may be
by Cesati is doubtful, and Mr. Dalton shows that the well-known
gem, from the Marlborough Collection (illustrated, Vol. I, p. 39I),
bought from Zanetti by the third Duke, is not the gem praised by
Vasari as a head of Phocion, and that neither subject nor artist are
at present known. The person represented is more likely to have