Material Renaissance

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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Despite the recent interests of economic and art historians in the workings of the market, we still know remarkably little about the everyday context for the exchange of objects and the meaning of demand in the lives of individuals in the Renaissance. Nor do we have much sense of the relationship between the creation and purchase of works of art and the production, buying and selling of other types of objects in Italy in the period. The material Renaissance addresses these issues of economic and social life. It develops the analysis of demand, supply and exchange first proposed by Richard Goldthwaite in his ground-breaking Wealth and the demand for art in Renaissance Italy, and expands our understanding of the particularities of exchange in this consumer-led period. Considering food, clothing and every-day furnishings, as well as books, goldsmiths’ work, altarpieces and other luxury goods, the book draws on contemporary archival material to explore pricing, to investigate production from the point of view of demand, and to look at networks of exchange that relied not only on money but also on credit, payment in kind and gift giving.The material Renaissance establishes the dynamic social character of exchange. It demonstrates that the cost of goods, including the price of the most basic items, was largely contingent upon on the relationship between buyer and seller, shows that communities actively sought new goods and novel means of production long before Colbert encouraged such industrial enterprise in France and reveals the wide ownership of objects, even among the economically disadvantaged.

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Utgivningsdatum:2010-06-01
Mått:170 x 244 x 18 mm
Vikt:522 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Design and Material Culture
Antal sidor:328
Förlag:Manchester University Press
ISBN:9780719081255

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Michelle O’Malley is Director of Research in the School of Humanities at the University of Sussex. Evelyn Welch is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London

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List of figuresList of tablesList of contributorsNotes on currencies and measurementsAbbreviationsPreface and acknowledgementsIntroduction1. Consuming problems: Worldly goods in Renaissance Venice – Patricia Allerston2. Republican anxiety and courtly confidence: The politics of magnificence and fifteenth-century Italian architecture – Rupert Shepherd3. Making money: Pricing and payments in Renaissance Italy – Evelyn Welch 4. The social world of price formation: Prices and consumption in sixteenth-century Ferrara – Guido Guerzoni5. Perugino and the contingency of value – Michelle O’Malley6. States and crafts: Relocating technical skills in Renaissance Italy – Luca Mola7. Diversity and design in the Florentine tailoring trade, 1550-1620 – Elizabeth Currie 8. Art and the table in sixteenth-century Mantua: Feeding the demand for innovative design –Valerie Taylor9. The illuminated manuscript as a commodity: Production, consumption and the cartolaio’s role in fifteenth-century Italy – Anna Melograni10. Credit and credibility: used goods and social relations in sixteenth-century Florence – Ann Matchette11. The innkeeper’s goods: The use and acquisition of household property in sixteenth-century Siena – Paola Hohti12. Coins, cloaks and candlesticks: The economics of extravagance – Mary HollingsworthIndex