by:
Cunnally, John

Publisher:
Princeton Univ Pr
Published:April 19, 1999
ISBN:0691016682
Format:Hardcover
Pages:216

Description: Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Perenni Vena Scaturiunt: The Ubiquity of
Antique Coins in the Renaissance
Copia et Varietas Rerum: The Abundance and
Variety of Numismatic Imagery
Infinite Riches in a Little Room: Titian's Portrait of Jacopo Strada
Qui Sic Amat Alienas Imagines: Ancient Coins
as Sources of Virtu in Renaissance Italy
Promiscue Omnia Mercantur: Nummomania Spreads to the North
Antiquarius Romanus: Andrea Fulvio and the
Illustrium imagines
``Dares'': Who Was the Artist of the
Illustrium imagines?
Ceux Qui Ont Escrit des Medalles: The Earliest Numismatic Bibliography
Comme au Clair Miroir de l'Ame: Rouille, Physiognomy, and the Renaissance
Bilduisvitenbucher
Multorumque Monent Quae Tacuere Libri: Coin
Books and Emblem Books in the Sixteenth
Century
Non Sine Maximo Sudore: The Great Corpora
Projects of the Later Cinquecenton
Figure de' Corpi, e Historia Che Tace:
Empiricism and Rationalism in Renaissance Numismatics
Notes Appendix
A Biographical and Bibliographical Guide to Renaissance Numismatists and Their Books
Bibliography
Works Cited in the Appendix
Index

Card catalog description
Images of the Illustrious is an introduction and a guide to the numismatic scholarship of the Renaissance - the coin collections and illustrated coin-books produced by humanists and artists of the sixteenth century. Ancient Greek and Roman coins were the most abundant and portable remains of antiquity throughout Renaissance Europe, and were avidly collected as treasures, studied as documents, exchanged as gifts, admired as art, venerated as relics, and cherished as talismans of antique virtue.... read more