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The poster will present the author’s dissertation project “Picturing Emperor Ferdinand I on Medals in the First Half of the 19th Century. The medal production between 1835 and 1848 in an art-historical and historical context” implemented between 2016 and 2020 at the Department of Art History at the University of Vienna (Austria). The dissertation focuses on medals during the reign of the Austrian Emperor between 1835 and 1848, and on four central topics to the widest possible extent: the biography and historical circumstances of the ruler, the medal holdings from his reign now in the Coin Collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, the question of the significance of the medal for Habsburg representation and the medal production at the Imperial Central Mint in Vienna of the period.
