Risks in renaissance art : production, purchase, and reception / Jonathan K. Nelson, Richard J. Zeckhauser.
"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 examp...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2023.
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| Series: | Cambridge elements. Elements in the Renaissance.
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| Summary: | "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." -- Cover page 4. |
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| Physical Description: | 96 pages : illustrations (mainly color) ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 84-96). |
| ISBN: | 1009402536 9781009402538 |
| ISSN: | 2631-9098 |