List of Contributors List of Figures Preface 1. Introduction: Revaluing Renaissance Art 2. The Price of Quality: Factors Influencing the Cost of Pigments During the Renaissance 3. ‘Artefici’ and ‘huomini intendenti’: Questions of Artistic Value in Sixteenth-Century Italy 4. ‘Danthe Alighieri Poeta Fiorentina’: Cultural Values in the 1481 Divine Comedy 5. Mantegna’s Parnassus: Reading, Collecting and the Studiolo 6. Alfonso I d’Este, Michaelangelo and the Man Who Bought Pigs 7. New, Old, and Second-Hand Culture: The Case of the Renaissance Sleeve 8. Evaluating Textiles in Renaissance Venice 9. Revaluing Dress in History Paintings for Quattrocento Florence 10. The Madonna and Child, a Host of Saints, and Domestic Devotion in Renaissance Florence 11. 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 12. Voting with their Feet: Art, Pilgrimage and Ratings in the Renaissance 13. Madness, Reason, Vision and the Cosmos: Evaluating the Drawings of Opicinus de Canistris (1296-c.1351) Bibliography Index
Biography
Gabriele Neher, Rupert Shepherd
