Maximilian Kummer

Explores silver medals by Wolf and Nickel Milicz, revealing artistry, diplomacy and symbolism amid 16th-century religious and political conflict. In the turbulent years before the Schmalkaldic War of 1546-47 — fought between the Protestant Schmalkaldic League and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and his allies — the Bohemian town of Joachimsthal (now Jáchymov in the western part of the Czech...