The World of the Florentine Renaissance Artist: Projects and Patrons, Workshop and Art Market by Wackernagel, Martin, 1881-1962

Princeton University Press, ©1981. Soft Cover. xxx, 447 p.; 24 cm. Translation of Der Lebensraum des Künstlers in der florentinischen Renaissance, Leipzig, 1938. Contents: The Commissions; Great projects and work on them from 1420 to 1530; Sculptural commissions; Painting commissions; Artistic participation in the staging of public festivities and spectacles; The patrons; The city government and the guilds; Private patronage in the early and mid-quattrocento; Lorenzo Magnifico, Piero di Lorenzo, and Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici; Patrons from the Medici circle in Florence and the Netherlands: the Sassetti, Portinari, Tornabuoni, Filippo Strozzi, and others; Patrons of the High Renaissance and extra-Florentine commissioners and collectors; The general attitude toward art: the public and the artist; The artist's workshop and the art market; The artist class: its numerical strength, professional organization, and occupational divisions; Studios and their working procedures; Business practices in the workshop and art market; The artists. Stock#45452. Vg/ soft cover.