Commentary by Stephen Scher

Commentary by Stephen Scher

Click on the image of Napoleonic commemorative medals to hear commentary by Stephen Scher.

Dr. Stephen K. Scher was awarded a B.A. from Yale University in 1956, an M.A. from the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University in 1961, and a Ph.D. in art history from Yale in 1966. In 1994, he organized the groundbreaking exhibition The Currency of Fame: Portrait Medals of the Renaissance. Dr. Scher has lectured and published extensively on medieval and Renaissance art. His own collecting activities have focused on Renaissance portrait medals, of which he has possibly the largest and finest collection in the world.