Nuremberg church-warden Hieronymus Paumgartner (1497–1565) Joachim Deschler German 1553 This rare bronze medal by Joachim Deschler (German, active 1540–1569) shows the affluent Hieronymus Paumgartner (1497–1556) who held important offices in the Imperial City of Nuremberg. The medal is dated 1553, the year he was appointed town’s chief counselor. The concentration on the likeness of the human individual was an essential part of Northern European Humanism. Such portrait medals were made across Europe as tokens of identity, to be exchanged among friends or distributed by powerful rulers to the m
Nuremberg church-warden Hieronymus Paumgartner (1497–1565) Joachim Deschler German 1553 This rare bronze medal by Joachim Deschler (German, active 1540–1569) shows the affluent Hieronymus Paumgartner (1497–1556) who held important offices in the Imperial City of Nuremberg. The medal is dated 1553, the year he was appointed town’s chief counselor. The concentration on the likeness of the human individual was an essential part of Northern European Humanism. Such portrait medals were made across Europe as tokens of identity, to be exchanged among friends or distributed by powerful rulers to the most affluent of their subjects. View more. Nuremberg church-warden Hieronymus Paumgartner (1497–1565). Joachim Deschler (German, active 1540–1569). German, Nuremberg. 1553. Bronze. Medals and Plaquettes
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