Nuremberg church-warden Hieronymus Paumgartner (1497–1565)

Joachim Deschler German

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 520

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.

Nuremberg church-warden Hieronymus Paumgartner (1497–1565), Joachim Deschler (German, active 1540–1569), Bronze, German, Nuremberg

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Nuremberg church-warden Hieronymus Paumgartner (1497–1565), Joachim Deschler (German, active 1540–1569), Bronze, German, Nuremberg
Nuremberg church-warden Hieronymus Paumgartner (1497–1565), Joachim Deschler (German, active 1540–1569), Bronze, German, Nuremberg

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