Color and the Exchange of Ideas between Patron and Artist in Renaissance Italy
2000; College Art Association; Volume: 82; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/3051378
ISSN1559-6478
Autores Tópico(s)Visual Culture and Art Theory
ResumoThe article investigates how artists and patrons exchanged ideas about color, and how the form and content of their communication affected the coloristic appearance of commissioned works. Discussion of color in contracts was usually limited to the quantity and cost of expensive pigments. Letters and drawings, however, sometimes indicate the desires of patrons and artists, the terminology employed, and what visual effects certain terms implied. Several commissions for S. Maria della Steccata in Parma involving Parmigianino, Giulio Romano, and Michelangelo Anselmi are particularly relevant, since an extensive record survives of both the visual and verbal exchanges between artists and patrons.
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