Painting for profit
Subtitle: the economic lives of seventeenth-century Italian painters
By: Richard E. Spear and Philip Sohm.
Contributors: Sohm, Philip L. 1951-
Edition: Rome: setting the stage / Richard E. Spear -- Naples / Christopher R. Marshall -- Bologna / Raffaella Morselli -- Florence / Elena Fumagalli -- Venice / Philip Sohm -- Five industrious cities / Renata Ago -- The painting industry in early modern Italy / Richard A. Goldthwaite.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Haven and London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780300154566
Subjects: Painters -- Italy -- Economic conditions -- 17th century; Painters -- Italy -- Social conditions -- 17th century; Painting -- Economic aspects -- Italy -- 17th century; Art and society -- Italy -- History -- 17th century
Description: In this highly original book five leading art historians team up with two distinguished economic and social historians to investigate the financial worlds of painters in Baroque Italy. Exploring the many variables that determined the prices asked or received by painters--including the status of their patrons, the size of works and time spent making them, their subject matter, and their number of figures--the authors offer major insights into the social lives, psychological disposition, and economic circumstances of a wide range of major and minor artists.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.