Full title: The patron's payoff : conspicuous commissions in Italian Renaissance art / Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser, principal authors and editors.

Author/creator: Zeckhauser, Richard, Nelson, Jonathan Katz.

Call Numbers: N707.945/1

Record Identifier: 74VveNLpMMlM

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xviii, 234 p. : ill., plans ; 27 cm., I: The commissioning game -- Main players: patrons, artists, and audiences -- Analytic framework: benefits, costs, and constraints -- Theories of distinction: magnificence and signaling -- Selecting and magnifying information: signposting and stretching -- II: The patron's payoff -- Private chapels in Florence: a paradise for signalers / Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser -- Commissioning familial remembrance in fourteenth-century Florence: signaling Alberti Patronage at the Church of Santa Croce / Thomas J. Loughman -- Signs of success: Leone Leoni's signposting in sixteenth-century Milan / Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio -- Mantagna's Madonna della Vittoria and the rewriting of Gonzaga history / Molly Bourne -- Image is everything: visual arts as self-advertising (Europe and America) / Larry Silver.

Publishers: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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DDC: 707.945

MMS ID: 991017136239702626