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Analyzing an art museum
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ISBN: 0030503868 Year: 1979 Publisher: New York Praeger Publishers

The business of art : contracts and the commissioning process in Renaissance Italy
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ISBN: 0300104383 9780300104387 Year: 2005 Publisher: New Haven ; London Yale University Press

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


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Artists' and artisans' collections in early modern Antwerp : Catalysts of innovation.
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ISBN: 9781912554058 1912554054 Year: 2021 Publisher: Turnhout Harvey Miller Publishers

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For the first time, the collections of artists and artisans in Antwerp are investigated systematically. This yields new results about the connection between making and collecting: between innovation and appreciation.0The crucial role of the city of Antwerp in the history of collecting has long been noted in historical and art historical scholarship. However, up to now there has not been a foundational study of the collecting practices of broader social groups in seventeenth-century Antwerp. This present study makes up for the lack in research by focusing on collecting activities of learned artists and artisans - the social groups that, together with the educated merchants, stood at the centre of and shaped the city's cultural life. In their double roles as makers-collectors, they put a strong mark on the culture of collecting.

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