{"product_id":"the-world-of-the-florentine-renaissance-artist-9781442611849","title":"The World of the Florentine Renaissance Artist","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWackernagel stresses the changing roles of commissions and patrons in the late fourteenth to the early fifteenth centuries, from small-scale enterprise under Lorenzo de Medici to the large-scale development of major Florentine monuments.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslator's Acknowledgments  Translator's Introduction  Abbreviations  Author's Preface  Author's Introduction  PART I The Commissions  CHAPTER 1 Great Projects and Work on Them from 1420 to 1530 * The Duomo and Baptistery* The Church and Convent of Santa Maria Novella* The Palazzo Vecchio CHAPTER 2 Sculptural Commissions * Sculpture for Church Buildings* Sculpture for Domestic Buildings CHAPTER 3 Painting Commissions * Wall Painting and Stained Glass in the Interior of Churches and Convent Buildings* Panel Painting in Sacred Settings* Banners and Vestments* Paintings in Domestic Interiors* Household Paintings on Wood and Canvas* Painting on the Exterior of Buildings and Throughout the Cityscape CHAPTER 4 Artistic Participation in the Staging of Public Festivities and Spectacles  PART II The Patrons  CHAPTER 5 The City Government and the Guilds  CHAPTER 6 Private Patronage in the Early and Mid-Quattrocento * Representatives of the First Stage of the Early Renaissance* Giovanni Rucellai and Cosimo de' Medici* Cosimo's Sons, Piero and Giovanni de' Medici Attitudes and Forms of Patronage  CHAPTER 7 Lorenzo Magnifico, Piero di Lorenzo, and Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici  CHAPTER 8 Patrons from the Medici Circle in Florence and the Netherlands: the Sassetti, Portinari, Tornabuoni, Filippo Strozzi, and Others  CHAPTER 9 Patrons of the High Renaissance and Extra-Florentine Commissioners and Collectors  CHAPTER 10 The General Attitude toward Art: The Public and the Artist  PART III The Artist's Workshop and the Art Market  CHAPTER 11 The Artist Class: Its Numerical Strength, Professional Organization, and Occupational Divisions  CHAPTER 12 Studios and their Working Procedures * Living and Working Places and the Organization of Work: Master, Assistants, and Apprentices* The Process of Sculpture* The Painter's Working Procedure: Drawing* Execution of Panel and Wall Paintings* The New Generation of Artists: Training for Apprentices and Assistants CHAPTER 13 Business Practices in the Workshop and Art Market * Price Formation and Forms of Payment* Economic Status of Artists CHAPTER 14 The Artists * Class Status and Class Consciousness* The Artist as a Person, his Social Circle, his Way of Life and Work* The Artistic Temperament and Range of Interests* The Artistic Type in Contemporary Society Author's Bibliography  Translator's Bibliography  Index","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187496411479,"sku":"9781442611849","price":33.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442611849.jpg?v=1782125433","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-world-of-the-florentine-renaissance-artist-9781442611849","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}