Object Description
Jean Dassier (See biog. before no. 327) and Jacques Antoine Dassier, 335 COUNT GIOVANNI MARIA MAZZUCCHELLI (1707-65), scholar and biographer 1752
Obv. Bust three-quarters to right. Around, COMES IO . MARIA MAZZUCHELLI AET . ANNO XLV . ; below, I . DAS . ET F .
Rev. Lion of Saint Mark holding sword; view of Venice, the sea, a ship. Around, SENATUS CONSULTO . ; in exergue, M . DCCLII .. | I . DASSIER ET FILS F .
Bronze, struck, 55 mm.
Mazzucchelli was a celebrated scholar whose home in Brescia was used as a private museum and academy, containing manuscripts, books, and collections, especially of portrait medals. The medals were published by P. A. Gaetani (see MM. in the bibliography), and are now in the Musei Civici, Brescia. For Mazzucchelli's career, publications, etc., see E. de Tipaldo, Biografia degli Italiani Illustri, vol. 9, Venice 1844, pp. 241-50.
Bibl.: Forrer i, p. 516 (as Jean); Brescia 2, p. 92, nos. 106-08 (as Jean and Jacques-Antoine); Durand, pp. 124-25, no. 2.
