Memorials of Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642 : Portraits and paintings, medals and medallions, busts and statues, monuments and mural inscriptions / by J.J. Fahie ; with 20 portraits and 42 other illustrations.

  • Fahie, J. J. (John Joseph), 1846-1934.
Date:
1929
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Credit: Memorials of Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642 : Portraits and paintings, medals and medallions, busts and statues, monuments and mural inscriptions / by J.J. Fahie ; with 20 portraits and 42 other illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Reproductions. This was engraved for the first time by Pietro Bcttellini after a drawing by Tommaso Minardi. There is a fine copy in the British Museum (Print Room) and, occasionally, specimens come into the market. It has been copied more or less fully in (i) “Maggazino Pittorico Universale,” Genova, 1836, a lithographic copy. In the Hope Collection, Oxford, there is a similar litho¬ graph, inscribed Niccold Fontanc dis. Lith. Ridolphi. (2) “The Hundred Greatest Men of History,” edited by Wallace Wood, London, 1879-80, Vol. 6; details are not shown, only head and bust in an oval. (3) “ Allgemeincs Historische Portrat-Werk,” by Dr. Woldemar von Scidlitz, Miinchen, 1889, No. 24; quite a good copy. (4) Oliver Lodge, “Pioneers of Science,” London, 1893. (5) Ball, “Great Astronomers,” London, 1895; (6) Fahie, “Galileo, His Life and Work,” London, 1903; (7) “ Rivista Fiorentina,” Florence, 1909. IX. Portrait Replica by Passignani. We must now go back and trace the probable history of a replica of the above. I assume this replica was done before the original left Florence in 1624, and, probably, to the order of Ferdinando II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, who was ever an ardent admirer of his old tutor. It was hung in the Pitti Palace, and, in the course of the next forty years or so, had lost its identity, and had come to be known as the work of Sustermans. So we find it described in an inventory of the pictures at the accession of Cosimo III in 1670. “ By the same author [Giusto Sustermans]