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Article: Images of the Illustrious: The Numismatic Presence in the Renaissance.(Review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- September 22, 2000
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John Cunnally, Images of the Illustrious: The Numismatic Presence in the Renaissance
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. xiii + 230 pp. $45. ISBN: 0-691-01668-2.
Ancient coins were a ubiquitous element of Renaissance culture. By 1563, when Hubert Goltzius compiled his treatise on the coinage of Julius Caesar, he was able to cite the names of 978 individual coin collectors and numismatic scholars whom he had visited in two years of travel across the continent. In the book under review here, John Cunnally examines the development of numismatic books in the Renaissance and their intellectual and cultural significance. He does not attempt a ...