Introduction of board, guests, and members of the team
Session 1: 9:30 to 10:30 Sam; Team; Board
I. Sketch of the challenges and progress over the past year UKRI = outputs
II. A principal theme of this year’s workshop: comparative history: (1) towns and villages within Florentine Tuscany; 2) Lucca; 3) Siena; 4) Milan: 5) Venice; 6) Rome; 7) Naples
C. Plans for year three: beyond the ASF and beyond collecting (at least of testaments); new documentary samples
Session 2: 11:15 to 11:35: Valentina Costantini on the Valdarno Superiore, Lucca, and Siena: new findings and new prospects
Session 3: Neil McClelland: testamentary evidence and commissions from Neapolitan archives
Sessions 4: Aina Palarea: On the Catalonian testaments and artistic commissions
Session 5: Reflections on the social and economic history of art in late medieval and
Renaissance Italy
Rembrandt Duits
Julian Gardner
Session 6: Samuel Cohn, Compression of Economic Inequality and the Growth of Cultural Inequality, the beginnings of a Comparative Perspective within Italy
Session 7: The direction of the project in year three: Questions and Comments from the Board and honoured guests, 6:15
Session 6: Sam: The character of the collecting and the sources; Another Dimension of Our Project: Trends in Inequality, 4:05 to 4:40, talk and discussion
4:45 to 6:00 New Questions and new sources: the enigma of the progressive decline in commissions during the Renaissance, c. 1348 to 1525
- statutes, provisioni, and other sources showing barriers to commissions over time
- other documents and trends: domestic devotional art and its commissions: inventories: has anyone plotted the trends before the 16th c? first impressions
- Suggestions from the board and guests
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