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 pa...
| Основен автор: | Nelson, Jonathan Katz. |
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| Други автори: | Zeckhauser, Richard. |
| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
c2008.
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Table of contents only Book jacket |
Съдържание:
- 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.