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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DIEU, L. R. DE (French). Contemporary Sculptor and Medallist ot
Paris, by whom is a medal executed in I906 in commission for the
Societe francaise des Amis de la mledaille, representing Youth; obv.
Young man seated, nude, on rocks, contemplating the rising sun;
1L. LA JOIE DE VIVRE Youth and girl embracing each other. Vide
LAMOURDEDIEU infra.
DIEUDONNE, JACQUES AUGUSTIN (B. D.M., Vol. I, I904, p. 589).
Born in Paris on I7. May I795, died there on 2. March I873.
Some of his works of sculpture are mentioned in Thieme's
Allgem. Kiinstlerlex., IX, 278.
DIMENCHE, GUYOT (French). Mint-master at Amiens, appointed
for ten years in 1498.
DINELLI, RAFAEL (B.D.M., Vol. I, I904, p. 590). Was still
living in 1904. Known for his Portrait-cameos, in the style of Luigi
Isler's.
DIOSCORIDES (B.D.M., Vol. I, I904, p. 591). "Foremost
among the gem-cutters of the Augustan age stands Dioskourides ",
says Duffield Osborne, Engraved Gems, p. I2I, "who cut the
portrait of Augustus himself. This gem has remained undiscovered
though Reinach claims that a head of the Emperor on a carnelian
is the work of this master as, also, an amethyst portrait of Maecenas.
We have certainly, however, several others: a Diomedes, signed,
AIOCKOYPIAOY, two Hermes, a beautiful female head and a
portrait bust of Demosthenes. On all of these the signature is the
same with the exception of variations in the style of lettering, particularly on one of the Hermes (AIOCI: OYI.IAOY). Dioskourides
cannot be said to have been an originator of ideas, as, in fact, very
few if any of his contemporaries. He was a tasteful classicist,
borrowing his subjects from the best examples of an older art but
treating them in his own way. He seems to have come to Rome
from Aigeai in Cilicia with his three sons, Eutyches, Hyllos, and
Herophilos, all of whom followed his craft and have left us
examples of their work. "
Dalton, in his Catalogue of Engraved Gems of the Post-classical
Periods, describes several gems of the Brit. Mus. Collection which
are inscribed with the name of this artist, but which belong to the
eighteenth century: Onyx: head of Jupiter, with wreath of oakleaves (AIOCKOVPIAOV); - Sard: Mercury standing to r. and
looking to front, holds caduceus and head of Argus (two varieties;
nos 614 and 615 of Cat.; both signed as last); - Sard: Youthful
giant with serpent-legs looking up and defending himself with his 1.
arm, round which a lion's skin is wrapped (AIOC); - Sard: Boar

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