The patron's payoff : conspicuous commissions in Italian Renaissance art / Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser, principal authors and editors.
Nelson, Jonathan K.; Zeckhauser, Richard.
2008
N5273 .N45 2008 (Mapit)
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Title
The patron's payoff : conspicuous commissions in Italian Renaissance art / Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser, principal authors and editors.
Author
Nelson, Jonathan K.
ISBN
9780691125411 (alk. paper)
0691125414 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008.
Language
English
Description
xviii, 234 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Call Number
N5273 .N45 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
707.9/45
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Zeckhauser, Richard.
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Table of contents only
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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
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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.

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