Constantine the Great (ca. 272-337), Emperor 307

In or after 1947, possibly purchased in France* by Vernon Hall (Madison, WI); 1976, deposited on long-term loan to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]; 1980, gifted by Vernon and Sandra Hall (Madison, WI) to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]. *The preface for the 1978 Catalogue of The Vernon Hall Collection of European Medals states that the core of this collection was purchased in France in 1947, but the object file contains no records specific to the purchase of this work.

• Hill, George Francis. "A Corpus of Italian Medals of the Renaissance Before Cellini." London: British Museum, 1930. pl. 127; no. 755
• Hall, Vernon. "Catalogue of the Vernon Hall Collection of European Medals." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1978. no. 111
• Armand, Alfred. "Les médailleurs italiens des quinzième et seizième siècles." 2nd ed. 3 vols. Paris: E. Plon et Cie, 1883-1887. I: p. 31, I: no. 2
• Chazen Museum of Art. "European Medals in the Chazen Museum of Art: Highlights from the Vernon Hall Collection and Later Acquisitions." Madison: Chazen Museum of Art, 2014. pp. 49-51, 149, cat. no. 14
• Hill, George Francis and Graham Pollard. "Renaissance Medals from the Samuel H. Kress Collection at the National Gallery of Art." London: Phaidon Press, for the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1967. no. 211
• Pollard, John Graham with Eleonora Luciano and Maria Pollard. "Renaissance Medals. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art: Systemic Catalogue." Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2007. no. 241
• Friedlaender, Julius. "Die italienischen Schaumünzen des fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts 1430-1530." Berlin: Weidmann, 1882. p. 123, no. 2
• Börner, Lore. "Bestandskataloge des Münzkabinetts Berlin: Die italiensichen Medaillen der Renaissance und des Barock (1450-1750)." Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 1997. no. 280
• Pollard, John Graham. "Medaglie italiane del Rinascimento nel Museo nazionale del Bargello." 3 vols. Florence: Associazione Amici del Bargello, 1984-1985. no. 157
• Rizzini, Prospero. "Illustrazione dei Civici Musei de Brescia, Parte 2: Medaglie. Serie italiana secoli XV a XVIII." Brescia: F. Apollonio, 1892. nos. 57-58
• Fabriczy, Cornelius von. "Italian Medals." Translated by Mrs. Gustavus W. Hamilton. London: Duckworth, 1904. p. 158
• Habich, Georg. "Die Medaillen der italienischen Renaissance." Stuttgart and Berlin: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1924. pl. 58.3
• Middeldorf, Ulrich and Oswald Goetz. "Medals and Plaquettes from the Sigmund Morgenroth Collection." Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1944. no. 78
• Müntz, Eugene. "Les Arts à la Cour des Papes pendant les XVe et XVIe siècles.” 3 vols. Paris: Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d’Athènes et de Rome, 1878-1882. p. 292, pl. 1
• Hill, George Francis. "The Roman Medallists of the Renaissance to the Time of Leo X." Papers of the British School at Rome 9, no. 2 (1920): 16-66. p. 26, pl. 4.2
• Hill, George Francis. "Guide to the Exhibition of Medals of the Renaissance." London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1923. p. 25, fig. 27
• Middeldorf, Ulrich and Dagmar Stiebral. "Renaissance Medals and Plaquettes." Florence: Studio per Edizioni Scelte, 1983. no. IX

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