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050 00 $aKKH3168$b.O45 2005
082 00 $a338.4/77/094509023$222
100 1 $aO'Malley, Michelle.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004010837
245 14 $aThe business of art :$bcontracts and the commissioning process in Renaissance Italy /$cMichelle O'Malley.
260 $aNew Haven [Conn.] :$bLondon :$bYale University Press,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $ax, 358 pages :$billustrations (some color) ;$c26 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [321]-346) and index.
505 00 $gI.$tEconomic contexts -- $tMaterials and production -- $g2.$tCarved altarpiece woodwork -- $g3.$tGold leaf, blue pigments and other colours -- $g4.$tProduction procedures -- $tEstimation of worth -- $g5.$tThe value of pictures -- $g6.$tTrends in the price of altarpieces -- $tPictorial matters -- $g7.$tSubject matter -- $g8.$tContract drawings -- $g9.$tModels.
520 1 $a"One of the distinctions of this book lies in its quantifying of contractual information. It focuses attention away from individual commissions and emphasises the patterns and procedures that characterised the activity of commissioning and its development over time. Michelle O'Malley structures her inquiry around a trio of fundamental questions concerning the language that framed contract terms, the ramifications of contract 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. Set against a consideration of the background of the economic life of the period, the study widens the focus on commissions undertaken in Central Italy - which has been the subject of most of the research on contracts - to include in the analysis commissions from Venice and the Veneto, Lombardy and Rome and the Papal States. It considers some of the most well-known works of the Renaissance, as well as little-studied and lost altarpieces and frescoes."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aArtists' contracts$zItaly$xHistory.
650 0 $aArt, Renaissance$xEconomic aspects$zItaly.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip052/2004023970.html
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