Identifier: italiamedal00fabri (find matches)
Title: Italian medals
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Fabriczy, Cornelius von, 1839-1910
Subjects: Medals Medals, Renaissance Renaissance
Publisher: London : Duckworth
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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ITALIAN MEDALS BY CORNELIUS VON FABRICZY TRANSLATED BY MRS. GUSTAVUS W. HAMILTON WITH FORTY-ONE PLATES LONDON: DUCKWORTH AND CO.3, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN1904 THE GETTY CENTERLIBRARY PREFACE INCE the appearance, between 1881 and 1887, ofthe great works of Friedlander, Heiss, and Armand,publications on the subject of Italian medals havebeen confined to special articles in periodicals and a fewcatalogues of public or private collections. The Medaillender italienischen Renaissance of Cornelius von Fabriczy(Leipzig, 1903) marks a fresh stage in the progress of thestudy. Its value as a summary of recent research, and asan independent contribution to the subject, has been generallyrecognised. It is also of interest as showing how the barrierbetween the study of medals, regarded from the old-fashionedstrictly numismatic view, and the wider study of Italian artis gradually disappearing, to the advantage of both sides.The translation of such a book into the English languagesuggested ititaliamedal00fabri

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