id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_g74m2o2prrc23gagfihi3yusfu Jonathan Katz Nelson Risky Business: Commissioning Portraits in Renaissance Italy 2019 22 .pdf application/pdf 7589 500 65 The reputation of the painting, artist, and presumably the patron, suffered. Francesco del Giocondo commissioned a portrait of his wife, (Mona) Lisa, which has become the applies when probabilities are unknown, such as whether a patron will approve a commissioned portrait. Most documented criticisms of Italian Renaissance portraits that disappointed their patrons Risks to Italian Renaissance artists were inextricably linked to those of their patrons. When the quality of a Renaissance portrait, or any other work of art, was deemed unacceptable, patron's reputation, and thus the ability to commission works from artists in great demand. Patrons were surely aware of the risks when they commissioned paintings and sculptures. Portraits of particular individuals were sometimes removed at a patron's request from works that probable reaction of Francesco del Giocondo to Leonardo's portrait of his wife, (Mona) Lisa. Such were the risks in commissioning a portrait in Renaissance Italy. ./cache/work_g74m2o2prrc23gagfihi3yusfu.pdf ./txt/work_g74m2o2prrc23gagfihi3yusfu.txt