Painting under Pressure

Fame, Reputation, and Demand in Renaissance Florence

Michelle O'Malley

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Yale University Press
15 November 2013

Art: financial aspects; Renaissance art; Painting & paintings

In late 15th-century Italy, there was a growing demand for goods of all types, including art. Painting under Pressure shows how the increased desire for art objects exerted significant pressure on highly sought-after painters. Michelle O'Malley analyzes the lives and works of four artists: Alessandro Botticelli, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Filippino Lippi, and Pietro Perugino. She considers network systems, production practices, economic concepts, and workshop input to demonstrate the consequences of high demand on some of the most respected artists of the time.

In this fascinating and incisive book, O’Malley asks how painters approached the manufacture of large bodies of commissioned work, how they made day-to-day decisions about design and the application of pigments, and how serial production related to creating work for commissions, in addition to questions of economics. Using documentary evidence about price, scientific evidence about production, and formal analysis about appearance, the book demonstrates Renaissance business practices and shows the individual approaches artists took to producing excellence and meeting high demand.

By: Michelle O'Malley
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 165mm, Spine: 3mm
Weight: 975g
ISBN: 9780300197976
ISBN 10: 0300197977
Pages: 265
Publication Date: 15 November 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michelle O'Malley is reader in art history and head of the department of art history, University of Sussex, Brighton.

Reviews for Painting under Pressure: Fame, Reputation, and Demand in Renaissance Florence

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 *