Royal connections
Feb 12, 2020
3 minutes
Huon Mallalieu
HIS name may not be familiar to many nowadays, but, in 1550, the Milanese medallist and gem-engraver Jacopo Nizola da Trezzo was famous enough to be included in the first edition of Vasari’s Lives—although, in the second (1568), the author somehow divided him into two artists, calling the new one Cosimo, presumably because da Trezzo’s first patron had been Cosimo de’ Medici.
Later, Vasari wrote, he took service with Philip II of Spain ‘who retains him about his person... He has no equal
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