The Pursuit of Immortality: Masterpieces from the Scher Collection of Portrait Medals - Couverture rigide

Ng, Aimee

 
9781911282068: The Pursuit of Immortality: Masterpieces from the Scher Collection of Portrait Medals
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1911282069 ISBN 13 : 9781911282068
Editeur : D Giles Ltd, 2017

Synopsis

The Stephen K. and Janie Woo Scher Collection of portrait medals is considered to be the world's greatest medals collection in private hands. This fully illustrated volume features twenty of the best objects in the collection, with a checklist of one hundred and sixty more, and an essay which highlights why the Scher collection is noted for its comprehensiveness and outstanding quality. An accessible introduction to a remarkable collection, this volume brings to life these masterpieces of small-scale sculpture, compellingly conveying the circumstances of their creation and their historic significance.

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À propos de l'auteur

Aimee Ng is Associate Curator at The Frick Collection, NY, and a specialist in Italian Renaissance art. She has held curatorial and academic positions at the Morgan Library & Museum, where she was postdoctoral fellow at the Morgan's Drawing Institute in 2014, and at Columbia University, where she earned her Ph.D. She was guest curator of The Poetry of Parmigianino's -Schiava Turca- (2014) and organizing curator of Andrea del Sarto: The Renaissance Workshop in Action (2015-16).

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Éditeur
D Giles Ltd
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1911282069
ISBN 13 
9781911282068
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
56
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Personne responsable
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