The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

MEDALS BY O. M. POMEDELLO. 337
other medals of distinguished persons at the same time
and place. On page 46 of the same volume, and under
the same date, Van Mieris gives another larger medal of
Charles with the same legend, having on the other side a
portrait of Maximilian. This work may not improbably
have come from the hand of Pomedello, for it resembles to
some extent the Canossa medal, which is the only signed
example of Pomedello's medallion.
reaching the dimensions of a
It remains to be ascertained whether this portrait of
Francis was executed in Italy, or at the French Court.
Taking eleven, then, as the present limit of Pomedello's
authenticated works, we find three bearing both his
signature and device, four with his signature without the
device, and four with the device only, these last being
two of Isabella Sessi, a Venetian lady, one of Francis I.,
and one of Charles V. The medalet of Pomedello himself,
without either, must remain for the present in the rank of
attributions.
It should be added that some engravings by Pome-
dello, bearing the date 1534, are signed with the apple
and monogram, without the chasing- tools. These en-
gravings, executed later in his life, are said to be far
inferior to his medals.
Fig. 1 in the accompanying plate (XIV.)
is the medal
of Charles V. Figs. 2 and 3, also taken from specimens
in the writer's collection, represent Pomedello's larger
medal of the Isabella Sessi above-mentioned, and that of
Frederick II., fifth Marquis of Mantua. Of this Isabella
little is known, but it appears from the legend
SESSA VENETA that
ISABELLA .
. MICHAEL
.
she was the wife of one of the Michieli, a distinguished
family of Venice. The seated figure, personifying
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