Risks in Renaissance Art - Couverture souple

Nelson, Jonathan K.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1009402536 ISBN 13 : 9781009402538

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2024

Synopsis

This Element represents the first systematic study of the risks borne by those who produced, commissioned, and purchased art, across Renaissance Europe. It employs a new methodology, built around concepts from risk analysis and decision theory. The Element classifies scores of documented examples of losses into 'production risks', which arise from the conception of a work of art until its final placement, and 'reception risks', when a patron, a buyer, or viewer finds a work displeasing, inappropriate, or offensive. Significant risks must be tamed before players undertake transactions. The Element discusses risk-taming mechanisms operating society-wide: extensive communication flows, social capital, and trust, and the measures individual participants took to reduce the likelihood and consequences of losses. Those mechanisms were employed in both the patronage-based system and the modern open markets, which predominated respectively in Southern and Northern Europe.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009402536
• ISBN 13: 9781009402538
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 106
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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