How does the court and wealthy merchant patronage shape the content and appearance of religious and secular art?

a lot of the time they would pay artists to paint them into a religious scene; brings back a sense of humanism

Explanation:

During the Renaissance period, the patron played a fundamental function in the development of art. Besides being enthusiastic customers of art, they were its organizer, sometimes controlling content and structure. Wealthy people recognized art as a symbol of power, prestige, or honoring their lineage. The patron provided support to the artist but the relationship between them was always a source of conflict because of the dominating position of patrons.

well the fact it is basically a peninsula allowed trade to come from many places, thus allowing cultural diffusion to take place. india has seasonal monsoons that merchants travel back and forth from india using the monsoons wind patterns