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Article: The Business of Art: Contracts and the Commissioning Process in Renaissance Italy.(Book review)
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- June 22, 2007
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The Business of Art: Contracts and the Commissioning Process in Renaissance Italy. By Michelle O'Malley. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 358. $50.00.)
This book is a thorough-going survey of workshop practice and aspects of altarpiece painting and frescoes that determined their costs in Renaissance Italy, defined broadly from Duccio's Rucellai Virgin of 1285 to Sodoma's Virgin and Child of 1537. Michelle O'Malley's compilation of published commissions across northern and central Italy, assembled from notarial contracts, account books, diaries, and letters, will prove of lasting value to art and economic historians. Many of these contracts ...