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Previous article FreeBack CoverPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreIncomplete Contracts in FlorenceA man with limited mathematical abilities commissioned Buffalmacco to paint Saint Christopher in a church, instructing that the saint be twelve braccia high (about twenty-four feet). When Buffalmacco stepped into the church, he quickly realized that the entire church was not nine braccia high or nine braccia long. In order to fullfill his commission, he did the only thing he could: he painted Saint Christopher lying down, wrapped around the church interior. When the commissioner viewed the fresco, he did not see what he had had in mind and refused to pay. But Buffalmacco brought him to court, and won, successfully arguing that he had fulfilled his commission to the latter (or perhaps to the braccia).[Ingrid Rowland and Noah Charney, The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art (New York: Norton, 2016)](Suggested by Piergiovanna Natale) Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Journal of Political Economy Volume 129, Number 10October 2021 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/717173 Views: 386 © 2021 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.