The price of quality - factors influencing the cost of pigments during the Renaissance; "artefici" and "huomini intendenti" - questions of artistic value in 16th-century Italy; "Dante Alighieri poeta fiorentino" - cultural values in the 1481 "Divine Comedy"; Mantegna's "Parnassus" - reading, collecting and the "studiolo"; Alfonso I. d'Este, Michelangelo and the man who bought pigs; new, old and second-hand culture - the case of the Renaissance sleeve; evaluating textiles in Renaissance Venice; re-valuing dress in history paintings for quattrocento Florence; the Madonna and child, a host of saints and domestic devolution in renaissance Florence; images of St Catherine - a re-evaluation of Cosimo Rosselli and the influence of his art on the woodcut and metal engraving images of the Dominican Third Order; voting with their feet - art, pilgrimage and ratings in the Renaissance; madness, reason, vision and the cosmos - evaluating the drawings of Opicinus de Canistris (1296-c 1351).
Biography
Edited by Gabriele Neher, Rupert Shepherd
