Painting As Business In Early Seventeenth-Century Rome

by Cavazzini, Patrizia

• ISBN13: 9780271032153
• ISBN10: 0271032154
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-30
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr

Summary

"Painting as Business in Early Seventeenth-Century Rome offers a new perspective on the world of painting in Rome at the beginning of the Baroque from both an artistic and a socioeconomic point of view. Biased by the accounts of seventeenth-century biographers, who were often academic painters concerned about elevating the status of their profession, art historians have long believed that in Italy, and in Rome in particular, paintings were largely produced by major artists working on commission for the most important patrons of the time. Patrizia Cavazzini's extensive archival research reveals a substantially different situation."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Glossary
Introduction	p. 1
Artists and craftsmen	p. 13
Training	p. 49
The diffusion of painting	p. 81
The market	p. 119
Conclusions	p. 153
Appendix	p. 157
Notes	p. 171
Bibliography	p. 203
Index	p. 223
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