Giving equal weight to the Italian regions outside Florence, she discusses a wide range of works, from paintings to coins, and from sculptures to tapestries, examines the issues of materials, workshop practises, and artist-patron relationships, and explores the ways in which visual imagery related to contemporary sexual, social and political behaviour. In this book Evelyn Welch presents a fresh picture of the Italian Renaissance. Milan was one of the largest and most important cities in Renaissance Italy. Emphasis has been placed on recreating the experience of contemporary Italians - the patrons who commissioned the works, the members of the public who viewed them, and the artists who produced them. Evelyn Welch - Art at Court and the Wider Urban Market - the Case of Milan. Yet the traditional story of the Renaissance has been dramatically revised in the light of new scholarship, and new issues have greatly enriched our understanding of the period. ISBN 9780300159851.ΠαρουσίασηBetween the `Black Death' in the mid-fourteenth century and the French invasions at the end of the fifteenth, artists such as Masaccio, Donatello, Fra Angelico, and Leonardo, working in the kingdoms, princedoms, and republics of the Italian peninsula, created some of the most influential and exciting works in a variety of artistic fields. A scholar of early modern European visual and material culture, she served as a member of the Executive Committee from 2000-2006 before becoming Chair of the Association in 2007. Finally, she explores antiquities and indulgences, both of which posed dramatic challenges to contemporary notions of market value and to the concept of commodification itself. 1959) was Chair of the Association of Art Historians from 2007-2011. Product details Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks Reissue ed. Her publications include Art and Authority in Renaissance Milan (Yale, 1995). She considers transient forms of sales such as fairs, auctions, and lotteries as well as consumers themselves. Evelyn Welch is a Lecturer at the Warburg Institute, University of London.

Evelyn Welch draws on wide-ranging sources to expose the fears, anxieties, and social possibilities of the Renaissance marketplace and to show the impact of these attitudes on developing urban spaces. The book investigates how men and women of different social classes went to the streets, squares, and shops to buy goods they needed and wanted on a daily-or a once-in-a-lifetime-basis, during the Renaissance period. This fascinating and original book breaks new ground in the area of Renaissance material culture, focusing on the marketplace and such related topics as middle-class to courtly consumption, the provision of foodstuffs, and the acquisition of antiquities and holy relics. The Material Renaissance addresses these issues of economic. Shopping was as important in the Renaissance as it is today. art and the production, buying and selling of other types of objects in Italy in the period.

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