Michelle O'Malley is reader in art history and head of the department of art history, University of Sussex, Brighton.
This is an imaginative study of market pressures: of patronage, pricing and workshop economics in the 15th-century Florence, but also of the aesthetic demands placed on those painters thrust into the limelight and expected to fulfil large commissions with aplomb. Focusing on Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, Perugino and Filippino Lippi, O'Malley's book makes a meticulous investigation into the price of fame. -Apollo Magazine * Apollo Magazine *