Medals Videos

Cocktails with a Curator: Leoni’s Medal of Andrea Doria

Cocktails with a Curator: Bertoldo's "Pazzi Conspiracy" Medal

Stephen K. Scher: "An Insatiable Desire for all Things Antique: Isabella d'Este as Patron and Collector"

Full Circle: The Medal in Art History

Welcome and Opening Remarks: Ian Wardropper, Robert Wellington, and Aimee Ng

Susan Dackerman: "Making Prints, Making Medals"

Ilaria Bernocchi: "Inventing" Identity: Medals and Heroic Portraits in the Italian Renaissance

Emily Fenichel: "Michelangelo’s Portrait Medal: The Penitent Artist in His Final Years"

Jeffrey Collins: "Egentium Votis: Francesco Riccardi, Giovacchino Fortini, and the Art of Self-Promotion”

Martin Hirsch: "Papal Medals and the Interplay of Prints, Paintings, and Numismatics"

Hannah Williams: "Portrayal and Commemoration: Medal Engravers at the French Academy of Painting and Sculpture"

Emerson Bowyer: "History in Relief"

Xavier F. Salomon and Dr. Stephen K. Scher: Closing Remarks

Lauren Jacobi: “Renaissance Medals as Ornament”

Heads and Tales: The Odyssey of a Medals Collector

Making a Medal Using the Sand Casting Process

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

Alfonso Ruspagiari, Portrait of a Woman and an Onlooker

Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Robert Louis Stevenson

Sebastien Dadler, Frederick Henry in Triumph

Jean Warin, Anne of Austria and Louis XIV, King of France

Pisanello, Cecilia Gonzaga