The Business of Art: Contracts And the Comissioning Process in Renaissance Italy: Contracts and the Commissioning Process in Renaissance Italy - Rilegato

O'Malley, Michelle

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ISBN 10: 0300104383 ISBN 13: 9780300104387

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2005

Riassunto

Contracts are the most informative records we have about the nature of commissioning prestigious works of art in the Renaissance. This book provides a framework for interpreting these important documents by surveying a body of contracts and related records concerning altarpieces and frescoes painted in Italy from the early fourteenth to the early sixteenth centuries.

Michelle O'Malley structures her inquiry around a trio of fundamental questions concerning the language of contracts, the ramifications of stipulations for production and finance, and the means used to transmit information, particularly visual information, between a painter and his client. At the heart of the book is an analysis of the implications of the monetary decisions made by contracting parties. The author considers some of the most well-known works of the Renaissance, as well as little-studied and lost altarpieces and frescoes, to demonstrate the fundamental importance of negotiation to the gestation of a new work of art.

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L'autore:

Michelle O'Malley is head of the Centre for Research Support, School of Humanities, University of Sussex.

Michelle O'Malley is Head of the Centre for Research Support, School of Humanities, University of Sussex.

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Book by OMalley Michelle

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0300104383
• ISBN 13: 9780300104387
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 358