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Images of the Illustrious:
The Numismatic Presence in the Renaissance
John Cunnally

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Ch. 1Perenni Vena Scaturiunt: The Ubiquity of Antique Coins in the Renaissance3
Ch. 2Copia et Varietas Rerum: The Abundance and Variety of Numismatic Imagery12
Ch. 3Infinite Riches in a Little Room: Titian's Portrait of Jacopo Strada26
Ch. 4Qui Sic Amat Alienas Imagines: Ancient Coins as Sources of Virtu in Renaissance Italy34
Ch. 5Promiscue Omnia Mercantur: Nummomania Spreads to the North40
Ch. 6Antiquarius Romanus: Andrea Fulvio and the Illustrium imagines52
Ch. 7"Dares": Who Was the Artist of the Illustrium imagines?70
Ch. 8Ceux Qui Ont Escrit des Medalles: The Earliest Numismatic Bibliography88
Ch. 9Comme au Clair Miroir de I'Ame: Rouille, Physiognomy, and the Renaissance Bildnisvitenbucher95
Ch. 10Multorumque Monent Quae Tacuere Libri: Coin Books and Emblem Books in the Sixteenth Century105
Ch. 11Non Sine Maximo Sudore: The Great Corpora Projects of the Later Cinquecento123
Ch. 12Figure de'Corpi, e Historia Che Tace: Empiricism and Rationalism in Renaissance Numismatics134
Notes147
AppA Biographical and Bibliographical Guide to Renaissance Numismatists and Their Books185
Bibliography: Works cited in the Appendix215
Index221

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