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.

  • John Joseph Fahie
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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    an engraving after it is published in Gavard s Galerics Histori- ques de Versailles,” Paris, circa 1840 (Seric X, Section 4). It is inscribed Grave par Jean Baptiste Vcndersypcn, elevc de Calamatta, Bruxelles. Peint par Fr. Broschi [sic J. Diagraphe et Pantographe Gavard. As Luigi Calamatta was Professor of Painting in Brussels in 1837, we may put the date of Vendcrsypen’s work at 1835-40. (2) By Allan Ramsay in 1750, “ from a picture by Giusto in the Pitti Gallery.” It is now in the Master s Lodge, Trinity College, Cambridge—a donation in 1759 by Dr. Robert Smith, then Master of Trinity. The Ramsay portrait has been reproduced as follows:—(1) An engraving by Robert Hart in (a) Knight’s “Gallery of Portraits,” London, 1834, (b) Orr’s “Portrait Gallery of Dis¬ tinguished Poets, etc.,” 1853, (c) Mackenzie’s “Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography,” 1865. Other reproductions of Hart’s engraving will be found in (2) Miss Mary Allen-Olney, “Private Life of Galileo,” London, 1870; (3) Harper’s “New Monthly Magazine,” New York, 1874; (4) Lodge, “Pioneers of Science,” London, 1893; (5) a lithograph, inscribed C. Brandt del. Knesele sc. The Bodleian Portrait. I first saw this picture in 1913, and on inquiring as to its history, Mr. Madan, the late Librarian, told me that they had no record of it in the University Registers, beyond one entry in the Registrum Benefactorum of the Library as follows: — “ Clarissimus et doctissimus vir Signor Vincentio Viviani Magnae [sic] Hetruriae Ducis Mathematicus Academiae huic opus suum DE MAXIMIS ET MINIMIS GEOMETRICAM SC. DIVINATIONEM IN QUINTUM CONICORUM APOL- LONII PERGAEI DESIDERATUM, Unacum pictura Galilaei a Galilaeis, ex Italia benigne transmisit. April XXVI. MDCLXI.”