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The nephew of Lorenzo Maria Weber, Giovanni appears to have signed a pattern Taler for Emperor Francis I of Austria in 1763. From this it has been suggested that he studied in Vienna with A. Widemann, although there are no documents to support the assertion. Giovanni executed a series of struck medals of the earlier Medici. His cast medals indicate the end of the tradition begun by Soldani. See Forrer 6, pp. 403-04; Thieme-Becker 35, p. 219; Lankheit, pp. 195, 219 (n. 159). --- from The Molinari Collection, Andrea S. Norris and Ingrid Weber, Published by Bowdoin College, 1976