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The Material Renaissance (Paperback)
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The Material Renaissance (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Design and Material Culture
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Despite the recent interests of economic and art historians in the
workings of the market, we still know remarkably little about the
everyday context for the exchange of objects and the meaning of
demand in the lives of individuals in the Renaissance. Nor do we
have much sense of the relationship between the creation and
purchase of works of art and the production, buying and selling of
other types of objects in Italy in the period. The material
Renaissance addresses these issues of economic and social life. It
develops the analysis of demand, supply and exchange first proposed
by Richard Goldthwaite in his ground-breaking Wealth and the demand
for art in Renaissance Italy, and expands our understanding of the
particularities of exchange in this consumer-led period.
Considering food, clothing and every-day furnishings, as well as
books, goldsmiths' work, altarpieces and other luxury goods, the
book draws on contemporary archival material to explore pricing, to
investigate production from the point of view of demand, and to
look at networks of exchange that relied not only on money but also
on credit, payment in kind and gift giving. The material
Renaissance establishes the dynamic social character of exchange.
It demonstrates that the cost of goods, including the price of the
most basic items, was largely contingent upon on the relationship
between buyer and seller, shows that communities actively sought
new goods and novel means of production long before Colbert
encouraged such industrial enterprise in France and reveals the
wide ownership of objects, even among the economically
disadvantaged. -- .
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