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

  1. statutes, provisioni, and other sources showing barriers to commissions over time
  2. other documents and trends: domestic devotional art and its commissions: inventories: has anyone plotted the trends before the 16th c? first impressions
  3. Suggestions from the board and guests



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