Italian Medals

Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art; Studies in the History of Art, Vol. 21, 1987. 299 pages, illustrations; 28 cm. Proceedings of the symposium Italian medals, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 29-31 March 1984. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Moderate edgewear to wraps. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Soldani's models for medals and his training, by Charles Avery; Surface characteristics of Renaissance medals and their interpretation, by Arthur Beale; Non-destructive instrumental analysis of medals, by Eugene Farrell; New studies on Giovanni da Cavino, by Giovanni Gorini; Medal-making in France 1400-1650: the Italian dimension, by Mark Jones; A medal of Leone Baglioni by Vincenzo Danti, by Manfred Leithe-Jasper; The medallic oeuvre of "Moderno": his development at Mantua in the circle of "Antico", by Douglas Lewis; Reconsidering Sperandio, by Christopher Lloyd; Domenico Compagni: Roman medalist and antiquities dealer of the Cinquecento, by Martha A. McCrory; Gian Cristoforo Romano: the courtier as medalist, by Andrea S. Norris; Mateo de'Pasi: problems of style and chronology, by Pier Giorgio Pasini; The Italian Renaissance medal: collecting and connoisseurship, by J. Graham Pollard; Pride and prejudice: Mehmed the Conqueror and the Italian portrait medal, by J. Raby; Speculations on the origins of the Italian Renaissance medal, by John R. Spencer; An investigation of the Renaissance casting techniques of incuse-reverse and double-sided medals, by Patricia Tuttle.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.