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ARONDEAUX, R.
ARONDEAUX, R. (Dutch). A Flemish Medallist of the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century, resided chiefly in the Netherlands, at Davenport and other places. His family had settled in the United Provinces in consequence of the religious persecutions of Philip II. ; a certain Isaac Arondeaux came from Ghent to Hulst in Flanders, where he filled the position of town clerk from 1591 to 1594; his d...

ARRABAL, P. G.
ARRABAL, P. G. (Span.). Die-sinker and Medallist of the early part of the nineteenth century. His signature ARRABAL, or ARBL. F. or also P. G. A. appears on medals of Ferdinand VII., of Buenos-Ayres, 1808, and Guatemala. He seems to have been employed by the Spanish government to engrave colonial coins. By him are also a medallion of Ferd. VII., 1808, and a medal on the Reconquest of Santiago de Chile, 1814. Bibliogr...

ASPASIOS
ASPASIOS (Greek). An intaglio in the Vienna Museum, signed by this artist, reproduces the bust of the Athena Parthenos of Pheidias. From this beautiful copy, the famous statue of the great master can be reconstituted ; it has preserved to us faithfully the features of that goddess, as Pheidias conceived them. The only two other gems that may be attributed with any certainty to this skilful engraver are a Hermes of Di...

ASTOR, J. DIEGO DE
ASTOR, J. DIEGO DE (Spanish). Medallist and Engraver on copper who worked in Spain during the early portion of the seventeenth century. He was born at Toledo, and learnt drawing under the celebrated painter Dom. Theotocopuli, surnamed El Greco. In 1609 Philippe III. gave Astor an appointment at the Segovia Mint, a post which was continued to his son by Philip IV. in 1633. Three years later, in 1636, he was called to ...