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The Currency of fame : portrait medals of the Renaissance / curator/editor, Stephen K. Scher ; photography, John Bigelow Taylor.

Contributor(s): Scher, Stephen K | Taylor, John Bigelow | Frick Collection | National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher: New York : Thames and Hudson in association with the Frick Collection, 1994.Description: 424 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.ISBN: 0500236798Subject(s): Medals, Renaissance -- Exhibitions | Portraits, Renaissance -- Exhibitions | Medals -- History | Medals -- ExhibitionsDDC classification: 737/.22/094074 LOC classification: CJ6094 | .C87 1994
Contents:
Prototypes: the medals of the Duke of Berry, c1400; Italy, 15th century; Italy, 16th century; Germany, 16th century; France, 16th and early-17th centuries; England and the Low Countries, 16th and early-17th centuries; documentation; bibliography; index.

Catalogue of an exhibition jointly sponsored by the Frick Collection and the National Gallery of Art, and held in New York and Washington, D.C.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 400-412) and index.

Prototypes: the medals of the Duke of Berry, c1400; Italy, 15th century; Italy, 16th century; Germany, 16th century; France, 16th and early-17th centuries; England and the Low Countries, 16th and early-17th centuries; documentation; bibliography; index.