The material Renaissance /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York, NY : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2007. |
| Series: | Studies in design.
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Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- Republican Anxiety and Courtly Confidence: The Politics of Magnificence and Fifteenth-Century Italian Architecture
- Making Money: Pricing and Payments in Renaissance Italy
- The Social World of Price Formation: Prices and Consumption in Sixteenth-century Ferrara
- Perugino and the Contingency of Value
- Part 2. Innovation, Production and Design
- States and Crafts: Relocating Technical Skills in Renaissance Italy
- Diversity and Design in the Florentine Tailoring Trade, 1550-1620
- Art and the Table in Sixteenth-century Mantua: Feeding the Demand for Innovative Design
- The Illuminated Manuscript as a Commodity: Production, Consumption and the cartolaio's role in fifteenth-century Italy
- Part 3. Objects and Exchange
- List of tables
- Credit and Credibility: Used Goods and Social Relations in Sixteenth-century Florence
- The Innkeeper's Goods: The Use and Acquisition of Household Property in Sixteenth-century Siena
- Coins, Cloaks and Candlesticks: The Economics of Extravagance
- Index
- List of contributors
- Notes on currencies and measurements
- Abbreviations
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part 1. The Rhetoric and Practice of Expenditure
- Consuming Problems: Worldly Goods in Renaissance Venice