European Medals in the Chazen Museum ofArt
Highlights from the Vernon Hall Collection and Later Acquisitions

Introductory Essay by Stephen K. Scher
Contributors: Philip Attwood, Arne R. Flaten, Mark Jones, Douglas Lewis, Eleonora Luciano, JosephG. Reinis, Stephen K. Scher, Jeffrey Chipps Smith, Louis A. Waldman

Edited by Maria F.P. Saffiotti Dale
Softcover, illus. 28 B&W, 124 color
205 pages
$39.95, plus postage
ISBN: 978-1-93327-017-3

This grouping of medals represents the museum's Renaissance, Baroque, and nineteenth-centuryhighlights and illustrates the history of the art of the commemorative medal. This catalogueincorporates the scholarship of nine international medallic experts. Their erudition, consummateresearch skills, and effective prose are evident in sixty-one essays on some of the masterpieces ofthis art form written for the education and enjoyment of students, specialists, and the generalpublic alike.

Here is a summary of the collection from the Director's Foreword:

In addition to an introductory essay by Stephen K. Scher, "The Development of theCommemorative Medal: The Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries," and 61 entries withmedallists' biographies authored by nine experts in the field, this catalogue includes anextensive bibliography, an index of legends, and a general index. An illustrated Handlist of theremaining 240 medals in the Vernon Hall Collection with accompanying Concordances (which will allowthe reader to correlate Chazen Museum accession numbers, the 1978 Hall catalogue numbers, and thenew catalogue numbers for all 302 medals) will be published in digital format in the future andwill be accessible through the museum's website.

Contributors inclide:

Philip Attwood, Keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals at The British Museum, isthe author of Italian Medals c. 1530-1600 in British Public Collections.

Arne R. Flaten, Professor of Art History and Chair of Visual Arts at Coastal CarolinaUniversity, is author of Medals and Plaquettes in the Ulrich Middeldorf Collection at the IndianaUniversity Art Museum 15th to 20th Centuries.

Mark Jones was Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum from 2001 to 2011 and asCurator in the Department of Coins and Medals at The British Museum authored A Catalogue of theFrench Medals in the British Museum.

Douglas Lewis was Curator of Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Artfor thirty-six years before his retirement in 2004 and has written extensively on ItalianRenaissance and Baroque medals and plaquettes.

Eleonora Luciano is Associate Curator of Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the NationalGallery of Art, where she contributed to the Systematic Catalogue of Renaissance Medals and haspublished on Italian Renaissance sculpture.

Joseph G. Reinis, Associate Curator, The Mossman Lock Collection, scholar, collector, andwriter on nineteenth-century sculpture, is the author of the definitive catalogue raisonné ThePortrait Medallions of David d'Angers.

Stephen K. Scher, medallic scholar and collector, curated the 1994 exhibition TheCurrency of Fame: Portrait Medals of the Renaissance at The Frick Collection and at the NationalGallery of Art, and has edited and contributed to its accompanying catalogue.

Jeffrey Chipps Smith, Kay Fortson Chair in European Art in the Department of Art and ArtHistory at the University of Texas at Austin, has published widely on German Renaissance art.

Louis A. Waldman, Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at theUniversity of Texas at Austin, has written extensively on Italian fifteenth- and sixteenth-centurypainting and sculpture.

Maria adds:

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