Details

Subject(s)

• Art, American [Browse]
• Art, Renaissance—Italy [Browse]
• Artists, American [Browse]
• Artists, Italian [Browse]
• Medals, American [Browse]
• Medals, Renaissance—Italy [Browse]

Compiled/​Created

1438-1990.

Summary note

Consists of European, American, and world medals collected by Vermeule. The collection is particularly strong in 1) Italian Renaissance medals, with 39 examples, including pieces by Pisanello, Mariscotti, Lixignolo, Matteo de' Pasti, Enzola, Sperandio, Selvi, and Rantvic; and 2) modern American medals, with 112 examples, including pieces by Reich, Furst, Kneass, Paquet, Longacre, W. Barber, C. Barber, Morgan, A. St. Gaudens, L. St. Gaudens, Pratt, Weinman, Flanagan, Brenner, Manship, Hyatt, Beach, Fraser, Keck, Sinnock, Kilenyi, Hoffman, de Francisci, Vincze, and Gasparro.

Provenance

Given in honor of Emily Townsend Vermeule, who received an honorary degree from Princeton University in 1989.

Indexed in

For a partial listing, see C. C. Vermeule, FROM MEDALS TO MASTERS (Boston, 1987).

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