"Always fascinating... The reader will get from Goldthwaite's book on the economics of architecture a more lively and more authentic impression of life in Renaissance Florence than from many more general descriptions of Florentine culture." -- New York Review of Books
Awarded the Howard R. Marraro Prize by the American Historical Association
"Always fascinating... The reader will get from Goldthwaite's book on the economics of architecture a more lively and more authentic impression of life in Renaissance Florence than from many more general descriptions of Florentine culture."--Felix Gilbert, New York Review of Books.
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Hardback. Condición: Very Good. VERY GOOD in very good dust jacket. No marks in text. Binding is tight and square. DJ has small tear and light wear. TABLE OF CONTENTS: * INTRODUCTION: The Buildings of Renaissance Florence ---- * PART I: Demand: The Patrons: 1.) The Wherewithal to Spend: The Economic Background -- 1.) The Reasons For Building: Needs and Taste ------ * PART II: Supply: The Construction Industry: 1.) Organization of Work -- 1.) Production of Materials -- 1.) The Guild -- 1.) Labor -- 1.) The Architect ------- * CONCLUSION: 8.) The Results: Art and Architecture as Investment ------ * APPENDICES: 1.) Value of the Florin, 1252 - 1533 -- 2.) List of Statutes of Building-Craft Guilds in Italian Cities -- 3.) Workers? Wages: Data and Sources -- 4.) Price of Meat, 1491 - 1501 -- 5.) Toward a Checklist of Early illustrations of Workers in the Construction Industry -- * INDEX. . . . . Awarded the Howard R. Marraro Prize by the American Historical Association. . . . . *Always fascinating. The reader will get from Goldthwaite's book on the economics of architecture a more lively and more authentic impression of life in Renaissance Florence than from many more general descriptions of Florentine culture.* -- Felix Gilbert, New York Review of Books. Nº de ref. del artículo: 2404040011
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