A study of the portrait medals as manifesto for the humanist cult of personal fame and as a vehicle for the finest artists of the age. This is a huge book, with nearly 500 illustrations.
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Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Cover is completely detached from the pages at the spine. Seller Inventory # mon0003476531
Seller: Magus Books Seattle, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Trade Paperback. Condition: VG-. used trade paperback edition. lightly shelfworn, corners perhaps slightly bumped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws. Seller Inventory # 1330724
Seller: Park Hill Community Bookstore, DENVER, CO, U.S.A.
paperback. Condition: Very Good. Clean and tight. Like new, but for minor wear to edges /corners. Seller Inventory # SKU040782
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Softbound. Black glossy wraps with gold image and white lettering, 424 pp, 105 color and 390 bw images, typically showing both sides of the medallions. Companion catalog to an exhibition jointly sponsored by the Frick Collection and the National Gallery of Art and held in New York and Washington, DC. From the foreword: Discussed and illustrated within this volume are more than 170 highly exceptional medals covering a 200-year period from about 1400 to 1600. Special attention is called both to the splendid artistry they exhibit in themselves and to the development of the medallic art wherever it flourished in Europe: Italy, France, Germany, England , and the Low Countries. A substantial book. As New, picture is representative of cover only. In shrinkwrap. Seller Inventory # 127770
Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Seller Inventory # 96H86_67_0810925729
Seller: Evolving Lens Bookseller, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Condition is Very Good+ in boards, with a Very Good dust jacket. Mild edge wear to jacket including a short tear. Rubbing to jacket. A few tiny, weak spots of discoloration to end papers. Text illustrated in color and b/w throughout. Text is clean and unmarked. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 424 pages. Seller Inventory # 13374
Seller: SHIMEDIA, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
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