Giuseppe Girometti
Giuseppe Girometti
(1780 - 1851)
Gem engraver, medalist, and sculptor, student of the sculptor Pacetti at the Accademia di San Luca. After winning prizes for four statues for the Duomo of Foligno, he turned to die engraving and from 1822 was engraver at the papal mint under Popes Pius VII, Leo XIII, Pius VIII and Gregory XVI. Girometti also worked for the Grand Duke of Tuscany and the Kings of Sardinia and England.
See Thieme-Becker 14, pp. 189-90; Forrer 2, pp. 273-74; 7, pp. 367-68; Bulgari i, p. 552.
--- from The Molinari Collection, Andrea S. Norris and Ingrid Weber, Published by Bowdoin College, 1976
8 objects
1827
bronze
Gift of Amanda Marchesa Molinari
1966.114.19.a
1850
bronze
Gift of Amanda Marchesa Molinari
1966.114.21.a
1823
bronze, black patina
Gift of Amanda Marchesa Molinari
1966.114.23.a
1824
bronze
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Mark M. Salton
1978.32.47.a
1827
bronze
Gift of Amanda Marchesa Molinari
1966.114.19.b
1850
bronze
Gift of Amanda Marchesa Molinari
1966.114.21.b
1823
bronze, black patina
Gift of Amanda Marchesa Molinari
1966.114.23.b
1824
bronze
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Mark M. Salton
1978.32.47.b
