140×215 (60×90/16), paperback, ill., 288 pp., 2003
ISBN 5-86793-237-0

Professor of Moscow State University, Victor Golovin is one of the foremost experts on the Italian Renaissance. In his latest book, Golovin develops a new and promising area of study in the humanities, the so-called economy of art. The author deals with early Renaissance art as a social institution, discussing revolutionary changes within the world of art; the formation of “markets”, or the appearance of clients, and their subsequent role in the evolution of genre and aesthetics; the artist’s changing professional status and the social and cultural processes affected by this change.

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