While patrons of the arts during the Northern Renaissance often commissioned works such as tapestries and illuminated manuscripts, patrons of the arts during the Italian Renaissance opted for

The correct answer is paintings and sculptures

Italian renaissance wealth owners were interested in having portraits of themselves and their families done by some of the greatest artists in the worlds so they paid for paintings and statues of themselves or of biblical motifs or in general just statues of perfect people according to the classical perception of perfect looks.