Author: Pollard, J Graham ; Eleonora Luciano; Maria Pollard
Title: Renaissance Medals : Volume One
Description: Washigton DC, National Gallery of Art, 2007. Hardcover. Color illustrated dj over black boards, white lettering on spine. liv (1) 2-591 pp. (cxxxv) contains many color illustrations of coins. (Consecutively paginated with volume 2.). Volume One of Renaissance Medals focuses on the Gallery's superb collection of Italian Renaissance medals, unique in their quality, number, and diversity. Among the most striking examples in the Italian group is Pisanello's medal commemorating Leonello d'Este's marriage in 1444 to Maria of Aragon, the illegitimate daughter of the king of Naples. The medal's exquisitely detailed reverse depicts Cupid teaching a lion how to sing. The tame lion (a clear pun on the name Leonello, whose portrait appears on the obverse) here symbolizes the man softening under the influence of love. VG .

Keywords: Coins and Stamps ; Renaissance Medals ; ;


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