A couple of items from the Penn State UP art history list, which which has
just reached me:
Philip Jacks & William Caferro, The Spinelli of Florence: Fortunes of a
renaissance merchant family, Penn State University Press, July 2001. "Using
the Spinelli family archive, this text paints a picture of the Florentine
merchant family's ascent to prominence in the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries. Focusing on Tommaso Spinelli, arts patronage, papal finance and
silk and wool manufacturing is glimpsed through letters and financial ledgers."
Hayden B.J. Maginnis, The World of the Early Sienese Painter, Penn State
University Press, January 2001. "Drawing on Sienese archives, on early
secondary sources, and on the more recent work of historians, this study
situates early Sienese painters within their society and their city and
provides an account of the economic, social, religious and intellectual
world of Siena's artists."
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Material Renaissance Project
Essex House
University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QQ, U.K.
Tel. +44 (0)1273 872544 Fax +44 (0)1273 678644
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