Diversity of patrons meant diversity of art.
Diversity of patrons meant diversity of art. Artists were commissioned by people from all areas of life and the art would reflect the diverse needs of the patrons. New motives emerged after iconoclasm spread throughout Europe in the new form of naturalistic style in still life, landscape and scenes of daily life.

One example of this new motives is this painting “Landscape with Charon Crossing the Styx“ which is common Northern Renaissance art and early Mannerist by being both naturalistic and inspired by the painter Bosch.The painting depicts a scene from greek mythology where Charon sails on the river Styx with the souls of the dead to either hell to the right or to heaven to the left (Landscape, n.d.). …show more content…
The form, size and material of art would need to be adjusted to the different income levels as well. Big art pieces were expensive and artists started to paint smaller and cheaper. Painted on cloth, canvas, carved on wood or printmaking.

A good example is the artform ‘Tüchlein’, which is painted linen cloth with hide-glue.
Here you can see a painting called: “Virgin and Child with Saints Barbara and Catherine” (Virgin, n.d.).

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Virgin and Child with Saints Barbara and Catherine, by Quentin Matsys (Virgin, n.d.).

Donor portraits.
A patron often times had to include his benefactor into his art, for example, by adding him as an extra into the paintings. It is called a donor portrait or votive portrait (Donor, n.d.). This compares with modern day sponsors, who often get their brand exposed (with logos on t-shirts for example) in the supported work.

One example of this practice is this “Braque Family Triptych Center Panel”, which includes the donor, dressed in red integrated into the scene.
This was common practice from around the
“mid-15th century donors began to be shown integrated into the main scene, as bystanders and even participants” (Donor,