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This is a
medal of the prominent English medalist working in France, Ronald SEARLE.
It is signed and has the number 39 of 100 pieces minted.
Annibale Carracci (November 3, 1560 – July 15, 1609) was an Italian Baroque painter.
av. The Annibale Carracci; the legend; Father of the Caricature
rv. The portrait of Annibale Carracci; caricature
size
- 95 mm, (3¾ “)
weight – 356.10 gr (12.56 oz)
metal – bronze, silver platedmint patina
Annibale
Carracci was born in Bologna, and in
all likelihood first apprenticed within his family. In 1582, Annibale, his
brother Agostino, and his cousin Ludovico
Carracci opened a painters' studio, initially called by some the Academy
of the Desiderosi (desirous of fame and learning) and subsequently the Incamminati (progressives;
literally "of those opening a new way"). While the Carraccis laid
emphasis on the typically Florentine linear draftsmanship, as exemplified by Raphael and Andrea
del Sarto, their interest in the glimmering colours and mistier edges of
objects derived from the Venetian painters, notably the works of Venetian Oil Painter Titian, which
Annibale and Agostino studied during their travels around Italy
in 1580-81 at the behest of the
elder Caracci Lodovico. This eclecticism was to become the
defining trait of the artists of the Baroque Emilian or Bolognese School.
In many early Bolognese works by the Carraccis, it is
difficult to distinguish the individual contributions made by each. For
example, the frescoes on the story of Jason for Palazzo
Fava in
It is not clear how much work Annibale completed after
finishing the major gallery in the Palazzo Farnese. In 1606, Annibale signs a Madonna
of the bowl. However, in a letter from April 1606, Cardinal Odoardo Farnese
bemoans that a "heavy melancholic humor" prevented Annibale from
painting for him. Throughout 1607, Annibale is unable to complete a commission
for the Duke of Modena of a Nativity. There is a note from 1608, where
in Annibale stipulates to a pupil that he will spend at least two hours a day
in his studio.
There is little documentation from the man or time to
explain why his brush was stilled. Speculation abounds.
In 1609, Annibale died and was buried, according to his
wish, near Raphael in the Pantheon of
Ronald William Fordham Searle, CBE, RDI, (born 3 March 1920, Cambridge, England) is an influential English artist and cartoonist.
Best known as the creator of St Trinian's School (the subject of several
books and seven full-length films). He is also the co-author (with Geoffrey
Willans) of the Molesworth tetralogy.
Searle was born in Cambridge
where his father was a porter at Cambridge Railway Station. He started drawing
at the age of five and left school at the age of 15. In April 1939, realizing
that war was inevitable, he abandoned his art studies to enlist in the Royal
Engineers. He trained at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology,
currently Anglia Ruskin University, for two years,
and in 1941, published the
Searle received much recognition for his work, especially
in
His work has had a great deal of influence, particularly
on American cartoonists, including Pat
Oliphant, Matt Groening, Hilary
Knight and the animators of Disney's 101 Dalmatians. In 2005 he was
the subject of a long BBC
documentary on his life and work by Russell
Davies. In 2007 he was decorated with
George Cruikshank, pen and
black ink sketch, over graphite,France, 1977
A preparatory sketch for a
series of medals commemorating caricaturists from the 16th to the 19th
centuries
Searle made this study of
George Cruikshank (1792-1878) for Six Fathers of Caricature, a series of medals
struck by the French Mint from 1976-77. The other artists commemorated are
Carracci, Ghezzi, Hogarth, Gillray, and Rowlandson. All the related drawings
are in the Department of Prints and Drawings , while the medals themselves were
presented by the artist to the Department of Coins and Medals of The British
Museum.
Cruikshank was a celebrated
caricaturist in nineteenth-century