Attributed to Domenico Poggini (1520-1590)

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Attributed to Domenico Poggini (1520-1590)

Designs for Medals of the Reign of Pope Sixtus V; the Prosperity under Sixtus V (1); the Liberation of Slaves from Algiers (2); the Abundance under Sixtus V (3); the Reclamation of the Pontine Marches (4); the Aqua Felice conveyed to Rome, 1588 (5); the Building and Opening of the Aquaduct Aqua Felice conveyed to Rome (6); the Foundation of the new Almshouse of the Hospital ponte Sisto (7); the Papal Fleet under Sixtus V (8); the Erection of the Statue of Saint Paul on the Column of Marcus Aurelius in 1588 (9); the Statue of Saint Peter placed on Trajan's Column, November 1587 (10); the Consecration of the Chapel of Saint Jerome and Saint Lucy in Santa Maria Maggiore (11); the Elimination of Brigandry (12); the Moving of the Obelisk, September 1586. (13); the Protection of the Papal Treasury by Sixtus V (14); the Vindication of Justice by Sixtus V (15); and the Beatification of Diego de Alcala, 1588 (16)

inscribed respectively 'CARITAS LIBERALITATE SUBLATA' (1), 'LIBERATE DONATIS' (2), 'PER TE EXEMPTA FAMES' (3), 'PONTINIS SALUDIBUS EXICATIS' (4), 'AQUA FELICI URBS DITATA' (5), 'PIORUM COMMODITATI' (6), 'CHARITATIS INCREMENTO PIETATI DONATUM' (7), 'IN SUMMA PENURIA ADVECTA ANNONA' (8), 'DOCTORI GENTIUM' (9), 'PRINCIPI APOSTOLORUM SACRUM' (10), 'DEI PARAE VIRGINI .D.D.Q. HIERONYMO ET LUCIAE SACRUM' (11), 'EXTINCTIS FUGATISQ. EXULIBUS' (12), 'VERO NUMINI RESTITUTUS' (13), 'PERPETUUM ECCLESIAE SUBSIDIUM' (14), 'IUSUTITIAE VINDICI' (15), 'PRISCORUM RITITUS SACRA RESTITUTA' (16); black chalk, pen and black ink, brown wash, some fragmentary indentation, watermarks crowned encircled eagles (6,7,10,12,14 and 15), sixteen pages from a dismembered album
8¾ x 6½in. (221 x 164mm.) (16)

拍品專文

Along with his brother Giampaolo, Domenico Poggini worked at the Medici court as a medallist and die cutter. He made his first medals in 1552. In 1585, the year Sixtus V became Pope, he went to Rome to work in the mint. He died in Rome the same year as Sixtus V. He executed various sculptures for the obsequies of Michelangelo in 1565. His talents were highly praised by Vasari.
The present drawings all illustrate events in the pontificate of Sixtus V. Despite his considerable energy, Pope Sixtus V, only survived his election by five years but during this short period he undertook numerous reforms and improvements: he drained marshes, commemorated by the design number 4; he replenished the papal treasury left empty by Pope Gregory XIII, medal 1; he publicly executed thousands of brigands, medal 12; he accumulated a treasury of four millions scudi in gold in the Castel Sant'Angelo which assured him independence, medal 14; he built the Acqua Felice, an aqueduct to provide a new water supply to the city, medal 6; and he added many new embellishments to Rome, medals 9, 10, 11 and 13.
Among the medals Domenico Poggini struck during the reign of Pope Sixtus V, three correspond to the descriptions of the present drawings although the inscriptions differs. A lion seated on a treasure chest, corresponds to the design of number 14. Trajan's Column surmounted by the statue of Saint Peter corresponds to the design of number 10 and Marcus Aurelius's column with the statue of Saint Paul to number 9, L. Forrer, Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, London, 1909, IV, p. 630.
These very finished drawings were probably intended as presentation sheets bound into an album to be shown to the patron who commissioned the medals, probably the Pope himself. The patron was thus able to select the suitable design and change their inscriptions