How did the patronage of the nobility (rulers of church and state) and of the middle class (merchants and bankers) affect 16th, 17th and/or early 18th century art? Choose four (4) different works of painting, sculpture and/or architecture to exemplify which artists were patronized by each social class and why, and what type of subject matter each class preferred and for what reasons.
This is a Art history question from SJSU Arth70B