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Florentine goldsmith, sculptor, coin engraver and medalist, Domenico served with his brother Giampaolo at the Florentine court from 1554-62, making both cast and struck medals of Cosimo I, Francesco I and their families. From 1585 to his death he was master of the papal mint for Sixtus IV. His medals are some of the best examples of later sixteenth-century academicism. See Forrer 4, pp. 628-32; P. Grotemeyer in Thieme-Becker 27, pp. 187-88; P. Grotemeyer, "Domenico Poggini als Muenzstempelschneider," Numismatik i (1932), pp. 42-44; Kress, pp. 63-64. --- from The Molinari Collection, Andrea S. Norris and Ingrid Weber, Published by Bowdoin College, 1976