AAH2015
Association of Art Historians 41st Annual Conference & Bookfair
Sainsbury Institute for Art, UEA, Norwich
9 – 11 April 2015
Artists, Avarice and Ambition in Europe, 1300-1600
Session Convenors:
Jill Harrison and Vicky Ley, Open University, Milton Keynes,
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In Trecento Italy Giotto di Bondone was working on major commissions in
Florence whilst buying property and conducting complex business
transactions in the rural Mugello. Michelangelo, as recently published
documents show, also accumulated wealth from a variety of sources in
addition to his art. In sixteenth-century Northern Europe Dürer
exemplified the spirit of commercial enterprise by employing agents to
sell his engravings and find new markets for his works all over the
Netherlands. Less commonly, women artists made economic contributions to
family workshops. The commercial astuteness of the engraver and
printmaker Diana Scultori, who held a Papal Privilege allowing her to
sign and market her work, is a notable example. Artists were ambitious
and money mattered. The economic interaction between artists, patrons,
institutions and ideologies in Europe 1300–1600 is the focus of ongoing
critical study, including recent exhibitions exploring the influence of
bankers, merchants and international trade on art and artists. The
speakers in this session adopt a multidisciplinary approach to
critically assess the idea of the artist as businessman or woman. They
consider the ways in which painters and sculptors were developing and
exploiting networks of wealthy and prestigious lay and clerical patrons
and producing works that engaged with changing and often controversial
economic discourse.
Jill Harrison (Open University) Giotto’s Family Enterprise: Money-making
in the Mugello
Joanne Anderson (Birkbeck College, University of London) Following
Enrico Scrovegni: Earthly wealth for heavenly gain in 14th-century Bolzano
Andy Murray (University College London) Creative Agency and Managerial
Hierarchy on the Charterhouse of Champmol
Irene Mariani (University of Edinburgh) Sandro Botticelli: A successful
businessman?
Lydia Goodson (University of Sussex) ‘El maestro el megliore’; Being
‘the Best’ in the Art Market in Perugia in 1505
Ben Hutchinson (University of York) Antwerp Mannerist Images of the
Adoration of the Magi as Brand, Idea and Cultural Dominant
Giorgio Tagliaferro (University of Warwick) Titian and Artistic
Entrepreneurship in 16th-century Venice: New modes, old practices?
Round Table Discussion The Business of Art – the European dimension
1300–1600
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