Monographien des Kunstgewerbes: Medaillen der italienischen Renaissance
Monographie des Kunstgewerbes, a German series volume on Italian Renaissance medals, written by Cornelius von Fabriczy and published in 1903, drawn from the Heidelberg University Library holdings for an art-historical and decorative-arts readership. The four pictures are halftone photographs of cast bronze portrait medals showing profile busts of men and a youth, with Latin inscriptions around the rims. A designer could take from them the low-relief profile format, the lettered circular border and the compact, sculptural treatment of hair, drapery and facial planes.
