Smart Museum of Art University of Chicago

Roma Resurgens: Papal Medals from the Age of the Baroque

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Papal medals served as great instruments of propaganda during the great Catholic revival following the schism created by the Protestant Reformation. The medals depict on one side a portrait of the current pope, and on the other, an idealized heroic image of a papal act. The images were meant to be persuasive in chronicling the rebirth of Rome as a great city under the popes. This catalogue details 172 medals from the 16th to the 18th centuries, which was brought together for the first time in a rotating exhibition that inculded the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, the Smart Museum, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

Nathan T. Whitman and John L. Variano

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188 pages. Black and white illustrations.
ISBN: 978-0912303284
©1983