The Patron's Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art

The Patron's Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art
ISBN-10
0691161941
ISBN-13
9780691161945
Category
Architecture
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
2014-03-10
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Authors
Richard J. Zeckhauser, Jonathan K. Nelson

Description

An analysis of Italian Renaissance art from the perspective of the patrons who made 'conspicuous commissions', this text builds on three concepts from the economics of information - signaling, signposting, and stretching - to develop a systematic methodology for assessing the meaning of patronage.

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