Perspectives on the Renaissance Medal: Portrait Medals of the Renaissance

ISBN-13: 9780415763752 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 240 str.

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Opis

The papers published in this book were delivered at two conferences held in conjunction with the exhibition, The Currency of Fame: Portrait Medals of the Renaissance

Spis treści

An introduction to Perspectives on the Renaissance Medal, Stephen K.Scher. Giovanni Bernardi and the question of medal attributions in sixteenth century Italy, Philip Attwood. Changing patterns of antiquarianism in the imagery of the Italian Renaissance medal, John Cunnally. Correct and incorrect: the composition of medallic reverses in late seventeenth century France, Mark Jones. 'Un gran pelago': the impresa and the medal reverse in fifteenth century Italy, Kristen Lippincott. Ancient themes on Erzgebirgishen Medals, Hermann Maue. Text and image: themes on reverses of fifteenth and sixteenth century medals, Graham Pollard. A creative moment: thoughts on the genesis of the German portrait medal, Jeffrey Chipps Smith. Mint and medal in the Renaissance, Alan Stahl. Pisanello's Paragoni, Raymond Waddington. The Modern Lysippus: A Roman quattrocento medalist in context, Louis Alexander. Visual constructions of the art of war: images for Machiavelli's Prince. Joanna Woods-Marsden.

O autorze

Stephen K. Scher