1 février 2019
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Virginia Nixon, « Producing for the People. Late Medieval Assumptions about the Process of reading Art Works », Publications de la Sorbonne, ID : 10.4000/books.psorbonne.14109
Though the majority of surviving works of art were made for members of elite social levels, substantial numbers were also produced for members of lower social groups. Both textual records and the quantity and variety of surviving objects make it clear that large numbers of paintings, sculptures and prints were made expressely to be sold to people in lower income strata. The intent of this paper is to examine some of these works and to propose some hypotheses about the concepts that helped sha...