Lysippus

Commemorative medal for Alessandro Cinuzzi (1474)

Lysippus , also Lysippus d. J. , (verifiable 1470–1484) was, as had been suspected since the research of the historian Federico Patetta (1867–1945), the stage name of an Italian medalist named Ermes Flavio da Bonis (lat. Hermes Flavius). He is a nephew of Christoforo Geremia . His sphere of activity was in Rome , where he mainly made medals for high officials, notaries, lawyers and advocates, most of whom performed their office in the immediate vicinity of Pope Sixtus IV . A large medal in honor of Alessandro Cinuzzi from 1474 bears Lysippus' Latin name Hermes Flavius on the reverse. Lysippus is also one of the 30 authors of an anthology on Cinuzzi's praise in Latin.

A typical peculiarity of his medals is the design of the busts, which the medal inscription mostly interrupts at the lower edge.

literature

Federico Patetta: Di una Raccolta di Componimenti e di una Medaglia in memoria di Alessandro Cinuzzi Senese paggio del conte Gerolamo Riario. In: Bullettino Senese di Storia Patria , Vol. 6 (1899), pp. 151-176.
Volker Krahn, Italian Renaissance Art in the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Krefeld, Krefeld, 1987, ISBN 3-926530-30-8
Louis A. Waldman: 'The Modern Lysippus': A Roman Quattrocento Medalist in Context, in: Perspectives on the Renaissance Medal, 1450–1650. New York 2000, pp. 97-113.
Ulrich Pfisterer : Lysippus and his friends. Gifts of love and memory in Renaissance Rome or: The first century of the medal , (Studies from the Warburg House, 8). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-05-004314-2 .
Markus Wesche: Lysippus unveiled: A Renaissance Medalist in Rome and his Humanist Friends. In: The Medal , Vol. 52 (2008), pp. 4-18.

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proof

↑ Patetta 1899, p. 169 (the emphasis of the original text retained): "Leggendo questo passo mi si presentò subito alla mente l'idea, che il Lyippus adolescens e l'Ermete Flavio, socius del quindicenne Alessandro Cinuzzi, potessero essere una sola persona" . German: "When reading this source note, the thought immediately came to my mind that the growing Lysippus and Hermes Flavius, the companion of the fifteen-year-old Alessandro Cinuzzi, could be the same person".
^ L. Forrer: Biographical Dictionary of Medallists . Lysippus. Volume III. Spink & Son Ltd, London 1907, p. 507 ff .

personal data
SURNAME	Lysippus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian medalist
DATE OF BIRTH	15th century
DATE OF DEATH	15th century or 16th century

[1] Patetta 1899, p. 169 (the emphasis of the original text retained): "Leggendo questo passo mi si presentò subito alla mente l'idea, che il Lyippus adolescens e l'Ermete Flavio, socius del quindicenne Alessandro Cinuzzi, potessero essere una sola persona" . German: "When reading this source note, the thought immediately came to my mind that the growing Lysippus and Hermes Flavius, the companion of the fifteen-year-old Alessandro Cinuzzi, could be the same person".

[2] L. Forrer: Biographical Dictionary of Medallists . Lysippus. Volume III. Spink & Son Ltd, London 1907, p. 507 ff .