Summary: The Stephen K. and Janie Woo Scher Collection is considered the world's greatest private collection of portrait medals, rivalling many collections in international museums. Fame and Immortality is a fully illustrated catalogue of the entire Scher Collection and is an essential resource for scholars, students and curators. Portrait medals were developed during the Italian Renaissance and are central to the history of European potraiture, flourishing as an art form until the nineteenth century. Though less familiar to us now than painting and sculpture, these exquisitely crafted objects, made from lead, bronze, silver or gold, were produced in large numbers to commemorate individuals, to acknowledge special events, and to disseminate the power of their sitters. The study of the portrait medal has become, through the work of Dr. Scher and others, a burgeoning area of new scholarship. Excellent reproductions of all medals to size, with details of obverse, reverse and full captions, are accompanied by scholarly essays, interesting facts and historical references in this important new volume.

Contents: Introduction - Hunting the Wild Aftercast: Confessions of a Medal Collector by Stephen K. Scher ; Italy. Art at Its Apex: The Medals of Italy by Ulrich Pfisterer - Entries ; Germany.A Handy Mirror for Princes and Citizens: The Rise and Dissemination of Medals in Germany by Martin Hirsch - Entries ; France."Proof Stones of History" The Medal in France, 1400-1900 by Mark Jones - Entries ; Netherlands. Perspectives in Metal: A History of Medals of the Low Countries by Jan Pelsdonk - Entries ; Englan. Illustrating an Island Nation: The Medals of Britain by Christopher Eimer - Entries ; Russia and Scandinavia. The Tale of the Elephant, the Lion, the Dragon and Other Extinct Animals - or The Early History of Medallic Art in Denmark, Sweden, and Russia by Marie-Astrid Pelsdonk - Entries ; Switzerland, Mexico, and the United States. (^Reanouncement, Available January 2019^)

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