This paper intends to examine the consumption of art by some of the most important aristocratic Florentine families from the seventeenth to the beginning of the nineteenth century. In the last few decades economic and social historians have showed an increasing interest in consumption and...

This paper is an empirical study of the motives for charitable donations, based on a unique data set of the English National Opera. Merging all their box office and fundraising data, our data set not only contains individuals’ donations, but also their opera attendance and all the fringe...