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  • The E-Sylum: Volume 10, Number 39, September 30, 2007, Article 6

    NUMISMATICS IN THE RENAISSANCE COMING TO PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

    [Alan Stahl, Curator of Numismatics at Princeton published the
    following release via the American Numismatic Society mail list
    Wednesday afternoon. -Editor]

    A major exhibition on "Numismatics in the Renaissance" will be
    on view in the Main Exhibition Gallery of Firestone Library at
    Princeton University from November 9, 2007, through July 20, 2008.
    The exhibition will include rare fifteenth- and sixteenth-century
    volumes from Princeton's Rare Books Division that discuss and
    illustrate ancient coins, and a display of some of the treasures
    of the Library's Numismatic Collection, featuring gold, silver,
    and bronze coins of Greece and Rome, as well as coins and medals
    of the Renaissance that were inspired by them. The exhibition will
    also include manuscripts, prints, and drawings from Princeton
    University collections and Pirro Ligorio's monumental map of
    ancient Rome, made in 1561.

    Although ancient coins were found throughout the Mediterranean
    region in the millennium following the end of the Roman Empire,
    it was only in Renaissance Europe that they began to be studied
    systematically; reproductions appear in some of the earliest printed
    books to carry engraved illustrations. The Princeton collection
    is particularly rich in these impressive examples of early printing,
    ranging from the 1517 edition of Andrea Fulvio's Images of the
    Illustrious, with its highly decorated settings of each coin image,
    through Hubert Goltzius's large-scale chiaroscuro reproductions of
    imperial portraits of the 1550s, to Antonio Augustín's late
    sixteenth-century systematic classification of ancient coinage
    and guidelines for detecting counterfeits.

    The role that the study of ancient coins played in Renaissance
    culture will be illustrated through the display of art works of
    the period that depict objects of classical antiquity, most notably
    a drawing by Parmigianino in the collection of the Princeton
    University Art Museum with an image of the goddess Minerva
    apparently derived from one on Roman coins. Selected Renaissance
    coins and medals will highlight the efforts of rulers of the period
    to present themselves in the guise of ancient leaders. Coin imagery
    in Renaissance literature will be shown by the pairing of Tudor coins
    with early editions of Shakespeare's history plays, which are
    particularly rich in puns on coin names and details.

    A daylong symposium, "The Rebirth of Antiquity: Numismatics,
    Archaeology, and Classical Studies in the Culture of the
    Renaissance," will be held on Friday, November 9, to celebrate the
    opening of the exhibition that afternoon at 4:30. The symposium is
    free and open to the public; individuals who wish to attend should
    pre-register by contacting Alan Stahl, Curator of Numismatics (609-
    258-9127; astahl@princeton.edu).

    "Numismatics in the Renaissance" is free and open to the public.
    Gallery hours are weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., plus Wednesday
    evenings until 7:45 p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 5
    p.m. Exhibition tours will be offered to the public at 3:00 p.m.
    on Sundays: November 18, 2007, and March 16 and June 1, 2008.

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  • 2007-09-30
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  • 10

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