Risks in Renaissance Art : Production, Purchase, and Reception PDF
by Jonathan K. (Syracuse University, Florence) Nelson, Richard J. (Harvard University, Massachusetts) Zeckhauser
Part of the Elements in the Renaissance series
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This Element represents the first systematic study of the risks borne by those who produced, commissioned, and purchased art, across Renaissance Europe.
It employs a new methodology, built around concepts from risk analysis and decision theory.
The Element classifies scores of documented examples of losses into 'production risks', which arise from the conception of a work of art until its final placement, and 'reception risks', when a patron, a buyer, or viewer finds a work displeasing, inappropriate, or offensive.
Significant risks must be tamed before players undertake transactions.
The Element discusses risk-taming mechanisms operating society-wide: extensive communication flows, social capital, and trust, and the measures individual participants took to reduce the likelihood and consequences of losses.
Those mechanisms were employed in both the patronage-based system and the modern open markets, which predominated respectively in Southern and Northern Europe.
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- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:13/03/2024
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- ISBN:9781009402521
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- Format:PDF
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:13/03/2024
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- ISBN:9781009402521