This title was first published in 2000: Michelangelo gave his painting of "Leda and the Swan" to an apprentice rather than hand it over to the emissary of the Duke of Ferrar, who had commissioned it.

Gabriele Neher, Rupert Shepherd

List of Contributors List of Figures Preface 1. Introduction: Revaluing Renaissance Art 2. The Price of Quality: Factors Influencing the Cost of Pigments During the Renaissance 3. 'Artefici' and 'huomini intendenti': Questions of Artistic Value in Sixteenth-Century Italy 4. 'Danthe Alighieri Poeta Fiorentina': Cultural Values in the 1481 Divine Comedy 5. Mantegna's Parnassus: Reading, Collecting and the Studiolo 6. Alfonso I d'Este, Michaelangelo and the Man Who Bought Pigs 7. New, Old, and Second-Hand Culture: The Case of the Renaissance Sleeve 8. Evaluating Textiles in Renaissance Venice 9. Revaluing Dress in History Paintings for Quattrocento Florence 10. The Madonna and Child, a Host of Saints, and Domestic Devotion in Renaissance Florence 11. Images of St. Catherine: A Re-Evaluation of Cosimo Rosselli and the Influence of his Art on the Woodcut and Metal Engraving Images of the Dominican Third Order 12. Voting with their Feet: Art, Pilgrimage and Ratings in the Renaissance 13. Madness, Reason, Vision and the Cosmos: Evaluating the Drawings of Opicinus de Canistris (1296-c.1351) Bibliography Index