The Patron'S Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions In Italian Renaissance Art

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.

• | Author: Jonathan K. Nelson|Richard J. Zeckhauser
• | Publisher: Princeton University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 10, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0691161941
• | ISBN-13: 9780691161945