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 ...
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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.
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Very Good. 2005. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. Quarto. x & 358 pp. Illustrated. Mild shelf wear and scuffing to dust jacket. Very Good. (Subject: Renaissance Art).
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HARDCOVER Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
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Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and glossy with minor shelfwear to the back of the jacket (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium-Large Format (Quatro, 9.75"-10.75" tall); Painting illustration to the dust jacket with title in white lettering; 2005, Yale University Press; 360 pages; "The Business of Art: Contracts and the Commissioning Process in Renaissance Italy, " by Michelle OÔøΩ Malley.
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Like New. Condition: Fine; Dust Jacket Condition: Hardcover in dustjacket. Black cloth binding. Condition is Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Photos upon request.
