The Currency of fame : portrait medals of the Renaissance / curator/editor, Stephen K. Scher ; photography, John Bigelow Taylor. - New York : Thames and Hudson in association with the Frick Collection, 1994. - 424 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

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.

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Medals, Renaissance--Exhibitions.
Portraits, Renaissance--Exhibitions.
Medals--History.
Medals--Exhibitions.

CJ6094 / .C87 1994

737/.22/094074