Scrambling for scudi: notes on painters' earnings in early Baroque Rome
Art Bulletin, The,  June, 2003  by Richard E. Spear

Continued from page 8.

(99.) Andrea Emiliani, ad., cat, by Gail Feigenbaum, Ludovico Carracci, exh. cat., Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Tax., 1993, 92, no. 42 (it is uncertain that the full amount of 200 scudi was paid).

(100.) Ibid., 123, no. 57.

(101.) Malvasia (as in n. 37), vol. 2, 16-17 (1am indebted to Donatella Sparti for discussing this passage with me). It is irrelevant to the gist of Rani's quip that Malvasia misstated Caravaggio's patron and fee.

(102.) Summerscale (as in n. 98), 248.

(103.) Ibid., 158. As remarked above, payment in goods was not uncommon at the time.

(104.) Ibid., 175.

(105.) Spear, 1997 (as in n. 74), 214.

(106.) Mancini, 242.

(107.) Ellen Perry gave me her expert advice on the text in the Paris edition of Andreae Alciati Emblematum libellus, 1534, 19; these translations, slightly modified, are taken from www.mun.ca/alciato/ltext.html. Sumowski (as in 0. 71), 156 n. 4, mistranscribed "areas" in the legend as "araes."

(108.) Sumowski (as in n. 71), 152, assumes that Elsheimer used the Latin-German edition of Alciati, which freely renders the explanatory lines of the Latin legend thus: "Mancher ist wol geborn zu kunst, Die in zu hochen ehren bring, Doch so er arm, ists ails vmb sunst."

(109.) Garrard (as in n. 35), 396, letter 24; and Ruffo (as in n. 62), 51: "... ma dico bane che quanto piu sara alto il prezzo piu sfortiro di fare un quadro per V. S. [Ill..sup.ma] grato."

Frequently Cited Sources

Ago, Renata, Economia barocca: Mercato e istituzioni nella Roma del seicento (Rome: Donzelli, 1998).

Cipolla, Carlo, Before the Industrial Revolution, 3d ed. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1993).

Delumeau, Jean, Vie economique et sociale de Rome dans la seconde moitoie du XVI'e siecle (Paris: E. de Boccard, 1957-59).

Ferraro, Richard J., The Nobility of Rome, 1560-1700: A Study of Its Composition, Wealth, and Investment (Ann Arbor: UMI, 1994).

Mancini, Giulio, Considerazioni sulla pittura, ed. Adriana Marucchi and Luigi Salerno, vol. 1 (Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1956).

Christiansen, Keith, and Judith Mann, eds., Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi (New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2001).

Author of Caravaggio and His Followers, Domenichino, and The "Divine" Cuido: Religion, Sex, Money and Art in the World of Guido Reni, Richard E. Spear most recently published From Garavaggio to Artemisia: Essays on Painting in Seventeenth-Century Italy and France (Pindar Press, 2002) [Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland, College Park, Md. 20742-1335].

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