Author: Pollard, J Graham ; Eleonora Luciano; Maria Pollard
Title: Renaissance Medals : Volume Two
Description: Washigton DC, National Gallery of Art, 2007. Hardcover. Color illustrated dj, black boards with white text on spine. xlii, 592-880 pp. cii (consecutive pagination from volume 1) contains many color illustrations of coins. Volume Two of "Renaissance Medals" documents the Gallery's collection of German medals of the sixteenth century, French baroque medals, and smaller, though no less significant, groups of Netherlandish and English medals. Guillame Dupre's splendid gilded copper medal, in the French group (pictured on the cover), celebrates the second birthday of the heir, the future Louis XIII, son of Henri IV and Marie de' Medici. The medal's reverse depicts the king and queen in the guise of Roman deities Mars and Pallas Athena, with the child Louis holding the helmet of Mars and resting one foot on a dolphin. VG .

Keywords: Coins and Stamps ; Renaissance Medals ; ;


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