The Material Renaissance

• Author(s): Michelle O'Malley, Evelyn Welch,
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Pages: 296
• ISBN_10: 0719076579
  ISBN_13: 9780719076572
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Art / History / General , Art / History / Renaissance , Business & Economics / Economic Conditions , Business & Economics / Economic History , Design / Graphic Arts / Commercial & Corporate , History / Europe / Italy , History / Europe / Renaissance , History / Social History , Social Science / General , Social Science / Sociology / General ,

Description:... 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.