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This is the first book to focus on coins as material artefacts and agents of meaning in the arts of the early modern period. The precious metals, double-sided form, and emblematic character of coins had deep resonance in European culture and cultural encounters. Coins embodied Europe's impressive power and the labour, increasingly located in colonised regions, of extracting gold and silver. Their efficacy depended on faith in their inherent value and the authority perceived to be imprinted into them, guaranteed through the institution of the Mint. Yet they could speak eloquently of illusion, debasement and counterfeiting. A substantial introduction precedes paired essays by interdisciplinary scholars organised around five themes: power and authority in the Mint; currency and the anxieties of global trade; coins and persons; coins in and out of circulation; credit and risk. A thought-provoking afterword focused on an American contemporary artist demonstrates the continuing expressive and symbolic power of numismatic forms.

Money --- Monnaie. --- History. --- Histoire --- Money. Monetary policy --- Iconography --- Thematology --- History of Europe --- coins [money] --- money [objects] --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1400-1499 --- Coins, European --- European coins --- History --- Coins, art, literature, money, mints. --- Coins in art. --- Coins in literature. --- Money in art. --- Money in literature.

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Ut pictura amor: The Reflexive Imagery of Love in Artistic Theory and Practice, 1500-1700 examines the related themes of lovemaking and image-making in the visual arts of Europe, China, Japan, and Persia. The term ‘reflexive’ is here used to refer to images that invite reflection not only on their form, function, and meaning, but also on their genesis and mode of production. Early modern artists often fashioned reflexive images and effigies of this kind, that appraise love by exploring the lineaments of the pictorial or sculptural image, and complementarily, appraise the pictorial or sculptural image by exploring the nature of love. Hence the book’s epigraph— ut pictura amor —‘as is a picture, so is love’.

Love in art. --- Sex in art. --- Image (Philosophy) --- Art --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Sex in the arts --- Sexuality in art --- Philosophy. --- Analysis, interpretation, appreciation --- love [emotion] --- Aesthetics --- eroticism --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Amour -- Dans l'art --- Amour --- Dans l'art --- Art and philosophy --- Philosophy --- Dans l'art. --- Love in art --- Sex in art