Madonna Of Victory Analysis

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The Renaissance created an opportunity for master artists to publish their works and establish their reputation while elite patrons utilized an agent's creation as a means to express wealth, status, or embellishment a historical event. Aristocratic patrons utilized the artist's creation to elevate social status among the social elite. Often times, art was funded for the purpose of creating shifts in a social structure. Before a project was developed, an artist often negotiated with a patron(s) so to be diligent in their efforts since the sum of expenses and risk an artist accepted was rewarded by how well a creation was acknowledged by viewers. Ultimately, private and corporate patrons during the Renaissance employed master artists to propagate an idea of prestige, social status, or embellish a historical event through a perspective not equally unified with the majority of viewers.

Patrons seek recognition from art through various strategies such as signaling, sign-posting, and stretching. Signaling served to elevate a principle's social status …show more content…

105). The stretch painting Francesco Gonzaga is know to patron is the Madonna of Victory by artist Andrea Mantegna. Another patron who utilized the stretch strategy is the son of Admiral Vincenzo Capello. Admiral Capello was defeated in a military battle against the Turks near 1538. A few years after Admiral Capello's death, his son commissioned a tomb and statue to restore his father's reputation from his defeat against the Turks (Nelson & Zeckhauser, 2008). In short, patrons during the Renaissance employed master artists to propagate prestige, social status, or embellish a historical event through a perspective not equally unified with the

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