Title & Author:

Italian medals / edited by J. Graham Pollard.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Gallery of Art ; Hanover, N.H. : Distributed by the University Press of New England, ©1987.

Description:

299 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm

Series:

Studies in the history of art, 0091-7338 ; v. 21. Symposium papers / Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts ; 8

Notes:
Proceedings of the symposium sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., March 29-31, 1984.
Includes bibliographical references.
Soldani's models for medals and his training / C. Avery -- Surface characteristics of Renaissance medals and their interpretation / A. Beale -- Non-destructive instrumental analysis of medals / E. Farrell -- New studies on Giovanni da Cavino / G. Gorini -- Medal-making in France 1400-1650 : the Italian dimension / M. Jones -- A medal of Leone Balioni by Vincenzo Danti / M. Leithe-Jasper -- The medallic oeuvre of "Moderno" / D. Lewis -- Reconsidering Sperandio / C. Lloyd -- Domenico Compagni / M.A. McCrory -- Gian Cristoforo Romano / A.S. Norris -- Matteo de'Pasti : problems of style and chronology / P.G. Pasini -- The Italian Renaissance medal : collecting and connoisseurship / J.G. Pollard -- Pride and prejudice : Mehmed the Conqueror and the Italian portrait medal /J. Raby -- Speculations on the origins of the Italian Renaissance medal / J.R. Spencer -- An investigation of the Renaissance casting techniques of incuse-reverse and double-sided medals / P. Tuttle.
Papers given at a symposium held in Washington, D.C., March 29-31 1985, sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts.

Summary:

"The papers are not a synthesis of current work on the medal but a lively presentation of recent discoveries concerning Italian medals of the period from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century."--Introduction, p. 8

ISBN:

0894681060 (pbk.)
9780894681066 (pbk.)

Subject:

Medals Italy Congresses.
Medals, Italian Congresses.
Medals
Medailles.
Numismatica.
Medalistica (colecoes em museus)
Italy
Italian medals

Form/genre:

Symposia.
Conference papers and proceedings

Added entries:

Pollard, J. Graham (John Graham), 1929-2007.
Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (U.S.)
Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.) ; v. 21.
Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.). Symposium series ; 8.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 192482
Call No.: ID CJ6195.I825; ID:97-B3573
Status: Available