An introduction to the Renaissance portrait medal / Stephen K. Scher -- Pisanello's Paragoni / Raymond B. Waddington -- Visual constructions of the art of war : images for Machiavelli's Prince / Joanna Woods-Marsden -- 'Un gran pelago' : the Impresa and the medal reverse in fifteenth-century Italy / Kristen Lippincott -- 'The modern Lysippus' : a Roman quattrocentro medalist in context / Louis Alexander Waldman -- Changing patterns of antiquarianism in the imagery of the Italian Renaissance medal / John Cunnally -- Mint and medal in the Renaissance / Alan M. Stahl -- Text and image / J. Graham Pollard -- Giovanni Bernardi and the question of medal attribution in sixteenth-century Italy / Philip Attwood -- A creative moment : thoughts on the genesis of the German portrait medal / Jeffrey Chipps Smith -- Classical subjects on Erzgebirge medals / Hermann Maué -- Correct and incorrect : the composition of medallic reverses in late-seventeenth-century France / Mark Jones