Rome: setting the stage / Richard E. Spear -- Naples / Christopher R. Marshall -- Bologna / Raffaella Morselli -- Florence / Elena Fumagalli -- Venice / Philip Sohm -- Five industrious cities / Renata Ago -- The painting industry in early modern Italy / Richard A. Goldthwaite.

Many mistakenly believe an artist can succeed with artistic talent alone. But Eric Rhoads knows that there are many brilliant artists who will never be discovered and never sell any artwork. Eric Rhoads is an outdoor (plein air) landscape painter, a portrait artist, and the world's foremost art marketing expert, having guided thousands of artists to success. He has founded numerous companies, and marketed both products and art. Eric is publisher and founder of several influential and nationally distributed art magazines and newsletters, as well as popular conferences and events.Many of today's most brilliant artists remain unknown. Their plight is not new. Today, Vincent Van Gogh's works are in incredibly high demand; in fact, his portrait of Doctor Gachet recently sold for $82.5 million. But in his lifetime Van Gogh sold only two of his 2,000 works of art. Van Gogh truly was a starving artist.Ending the stereotype of the starving artist is this book's essential purpose. It is Eric Rhoads' mission that artists no longer suffer this fate. This book will unleash your inner marketer. Under Eric's guidance, you will learn timeless marketing techniques that will allow you to live your dreams, no matter how lofty and unobtainable you think they may be.

In order to succeed in a construction business you have to be able to mark up the price of your jobs to cover overhead expenses and make a decent profit. The problem is how much to mark it up. You don't want to lose jobs because you charge too much, and you don't want to work for free because you've charged too little. If you know how much to mark up you can apply it to your job costs and arrive at the right sales price for your work. This book gives you the background and the calculations necessary to easily figure the markup that is right for your business. Includes a CD-ROM with forms and checklists for your use.

The book is a motivational book devoted principally to creative people such as writers, painters and sculptors. The book shows how a business man who had lost his business, home and family through divorce began to make small amounts of money from painting. It describes how he decided to use his business acumen and marketing experience to turn that small income from paintings into a business that earned 10's of thousands of dollars from each painting. It discusses the tensions that exist between creativity and the quest for profit. It provides proven methods for making money from creativity.

How to Make $200-$300 a Day Painting Addresses is a step-by-step guidebook on how to make real cash daily by painting addresses on people's curbs. Painting addresses is a business that pays cash daily. If you need money "right now," you can try to get a loan or you can paint a few addresses and eat steak tonight at Morton's. This book is the distilled wisdom of generations of address painters. This is not an internet business or a get-rich-quick scheme. You have to get up every day and do the work; no one is going to do it for you. You have to put out advertisements and actually paint the addresses of people who say "yes" (fill out the order form). There is absolutely **no door-to-door selling** involved. All you have to do is post flyers on doors and come back the next day and paint the addresses of anyone who has filled in the form, but this is a business and that means that in order to make a profit you have to take it seriously. This book shows you how, without any hype and hyperbole. You will learn what flyers work better than others, and what flyers work best of all. You will learn how to post flyers to make a LOT more money than anyone else doing this business, even if you put your flyers up one month after they have. Some people do this business and fail, or they make very little money because they have never been trained how to do this properly. This book cuts through all of the crap and shows you how to make this a profitable venture. The secret is in knowing what to put on your flyer and how to tape it up so that you will get the orders. All of this is covered in detail. Additionally you will learn what kind of paint to use, how much it costs, and where to get it. Also, you will learn secrets on how to CONSISTENTLY get 10-30% off your supplies on a regular basis (buying locally, in small or large quantities) and even how to occasionally save up to, and over 50% on your flyers, paint, and other needed supplies. There is no magic to this. It entails knowing how to get the special discounts major corporations get and how to find and use the coupons, rebates, and rewards your suppliers offer but do not always advertise. All of these discounts, large and small, add to your bottom line profit and can make the difference between a ho-hum month and a great one financially. All of this is revealed because the author is retired and is NOT in competition with you. Painting addresses is one of those "unseen businesses" that very few people do and they make a LOT of money doing. This business won't make you a millionaire, but it can pay your bills very nicely and allow you the freedom of owning your own micro-business and never having to deal with jerk bosses, office politics, wearing a suit and tie, or being at the mercy of corporate downsizing. You can paint addresses in cities all across America and even do this business as a giant road trip. The best painters pay for their own vacations by bringing along the paint and stencils and work a few days in the area they are vacationing in. Moreover, "How to Make $200-$300 a Day Painting Addresses" explains WHY some people make $50-$300 a week while others make $200-$300 a day on average, and over $1,000 a week consistently; and how to do it. This book details out what kinds of flyers to use and gives you the exact wording that professionals are using right now, and have used recently to earn over $1,000 a week on a regular basis. This book can and should easily pay for itself the very first hour you go out and paint. This is a business with a high profit margin that you can start for less than $100 and be "in the black" (making profits) your first week. From there on it is simply a matter of not getting lazy or get lulled by the easy money. Whether you will make any money is up to you. You have to go out and do this--the book can only show you how. NEW WEBSITE (once you have the book) is here: http: //painterbob.vacau.com/

How to Make $200-$300 a Day Painting Addresses is a step-by-step guidebook on how to make real cash daily by painting addresses on people's curbs. This book is the distilled wisdom of generations of address painters. This is not an internet business or a get-rich-quick scheme. You have to put out flyers and acxtually paint the addresses of people who say "yes" (fill out the order form. There is no door-to-door selling involved. All you have to do is post flyers on doors, but this is work, and this book shows you how. Moreover, How to Make $200-$300 a Day Painting Addresses explains WHY some people make $50-$300 a week while others make $200-$300 a day on average, and over $1,000 a week consistently; and how to do it. It is more than simply posting an ad and seeing who responds. This book details out what kinds of flyers to use and gives you the exact wording that professionals are using right now, and have used recently to earn over $1,000 a week on a regular basis. Whether you will make any money is up to you. You have to go out and do this--the book can only show you how.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Ladies' manual of art; or, profit and pastime" by Anonymous. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.