Itali.in |irrdccess(irs. even tlunii^li the dies wen- cxc- 

 culcd ill .1 tot.ilh- dilTcR-nt spirit. 



Ihis artist saw coins as an c.xprcssiuii of nionarclial 

 prcrofjativc rather than a medium i.l' coiucnience. 

 As a resuh, he invested tliem \sitli all the dit;nil\ and. 

 incvitahly, all the rigiditv ol' oliiciakhim. Wlirtlier 

 created for German principalities'-'^ or the Roman 

 papacy, iiis coins present the .same ide.i of monarciiie 

 power. C:reating the portrait of .i nKinarch, he was 

 primariK- concerned with tiie ima^c ol ihe ruler. 

 Only of secondary importance were the human trails 

 on which the divine prcrooativc was bestowed. On 

 tlie same theory, Napoleon I, inspired l)\ the example 

 of Augustus, ordered his artists to render and preserve 

 eternal youth in his features,'-'' and the ima'je of 

 Queen \'ictoria likewise remained unchanged lor 

 decades. 



Voigt's portraits of Louis I and Ma.ximilian II 

 of Bavaria. Otto of Greece, and Pope Pius IX (fig. 

 62) sm;uest M.nifn-chni's |.HMtia\.il of X.ipdleun. .Ml 



fig. Gj.— P.Ai'.\L Rome, Pius IX, hki liic. iMi)(|. Kiiiiau 



mint '•*'' 



(Div. ut Numismatics plimoj 



are suffused with the same remote dignil\-. their 

 expressions ageless, their phvsical liken(-sses a men- 

 coincidence. It is not the lack of psNclmlngical 

 .il)iHt\- to prrjject feeling and thought inio the le.itur(-s 

 ol a high potentate, or even the iii.iliililv lo (-xpress 



them in pl.istie form. Imt i.iih(-r (he delihcr.ite eoii- 

 hiK-ment of an individii.d In-liind his othcial per- 

 sonaUt\ whieh rhar.ielcri/es X'oi-^t's work. 



An ex.nnple, however, of his |)sychologi(-,il intuition 

 is the portniil of Pius \'III on a seudo of IS.id (lit;. 

 fi3), created during Voigt's stay at tin- .Muniih 



Fis^. I13. — P.\i..\i, Rome, Pus \'III. snuio, i'&y>, Rum.ui 



mini "' 



(PliDto eiiui'tes\ .Xiiiciii .111 Namisin.itiis Society) 



mint.'^' riie iK-.nUy th.it comes Ir iiil(-ll(-(-|ual 



qualities and human iiiiderst.uunii'-; <;lo\\s in the 

 fcitiires of the aged Ponlilf. .\ pei lei il\ modeled eye 

 accentuates the expression of eom iim.iied iiiiellee- 

 tuality in this great art lo\eroii iIk- ihroin- ol Si, Peter, 

 .iiicl a m.istery of .sciilplur.il \.ilui-s helps lo poi irav 

 this image, considered li\ many as one of ihe most 

 sensitive portraits in modc-rn coin cngraxiiig.''' 



The same calm tlinnilv is si-<-n in ihe (-omposition 

 ol the reverse. Here. ,1 new lieaiiu-. n-Milting from 

 |)erfect eurytlimy (jf dimension .md mo\-ement, per- 

 \-ades the statuary re])resent,ilion lliat w.is ns(-d for 

 centuries b\' artists as .1 svmliol of ih(- p.ip.iev-. 



Once Wiiut vvas on perm.mi-iil .issi';iimi-iit at the 

 Roman mint, he eonloiiiied more closi-|y lo the 

 ir.idition of that institution, 1 hi- (omposiiion of ihe 

 coins of Pius IX w.is conlimied li\ X'oi'^l in iIk- m.in- 

 ner of his predecessors, wilh a l)iisl nj the Pope as ihe 

 sxiiiliol of worldly power 011 one sidi- .md ihe \'.ilue 



'3^ Vuigt engraved coins for the pi int ip.ilitii-s ui B.i(lrn, 

 FIrssc, Saxc-Mciningen, and Wiirttenibci'i;. 



1''^ P.\TRiG.x.\Ni. Grt'gnrin .XT/, p. 2.3n: "l)c i onsi-rver a scs 

 tiaits line icune.ssc pcrpetucUc." 



|3'- Ser.vfini, pi. 165, coin 15: P.so.wi, M'un/r ii,iliiiii,\ nnii 

 1=.04. 



"■"■ CXI, vol. 17, coin 6; Ser.mini, pi. I')2. 1 oin ''; Si>,.\zj,-\ni- 

 Tkst..\, / Ramiwi Pdntrful, p. 121, 1 uin 212; D.wiNi'oni, 

 Europffin Cinwn\. roin 18'). 



i^-* Patrign.\.m (Chrniiriii .VI7, p. IIT) iliinks that V'oigt miisi 

 have engiased tliis c uin uliilr in Rome- and I'.iliign.mi pnipnsi-s, 



tlicrcfore, to 1 nnnt I'oncr's d.ilr of I K2') to n-.id IS.ill for 

 Voii^t's assignrnriiT .it tlic Miinith mini. In 1S>1 \'oigl cn- 

 gi'.ivrd also "rlic .Mlrgorv ol ihi KiM r 1 il« 1" lor ,1 mi-d.ll otllic 

 .'\< ( adi-niia 'I'ibcrin.i (il)id., inrdal dS), .uid I'.iii itrn.ini thinks 

 he ])re[)ar<-<l it lii-lmr his drp.iilnrr for .Munich dining ihc 

 [lonlirirate of I'ins \'1II, Sine r- \'oiul did outside work .11 llic- 

 lime, however, he m.iy li.i\e inoileled it while in Munich. 



II'' An intcTesting f.ic t is th.il an identic .il poilr.iil. iisid .is (he 

 oini Tse for the .ill-haioc c hi piei c- of lS.ll), hears .Nicole) CVrhara's 

 sic^n.tture inslc-.id c»l \ oi',^1 s. 



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