Bologna

In this highly original book five leading art historians team up with two distinguished economic and social historians to investigate the financial worlds of painters in Baroque Italy. Exploring the many variables that determined the prices asked or received by painters—including the status of their patrons, the size of works and time spent making them, their subject matter, and their number of figures—the authors offer major insights into the social lives, psychological disposition, and economic circumstances of a wide range of major and minor artists. In the Bologna chapter Raffaella Morselli investigates how painters like Guido Reni, Francesco Albani, Alessandro Tiarini, Ludovico Carracci and a numbers of minor painters organize their company, workshop and social life in Bologna. What kind of patrons they have, how they pay commission and, finally, how was the influence of the profit on the style of painters.[...]