Sentence examples for commissioned to add from inspiring English sources

About the same time, Caravaggio was commissioned to add an altarpiece to the two side panels he had painted for the Contarelli Chapel.

When, later, some tower blocks, designed by Arata Isozaki, the Japanese architect, were built nearby, Isozaki was also commissioned to add a walkway to the Calatrava bridge, in order to facilitate access to his own development.

Never has an artist been commissioned to add a sticking plaster to another artist's failed work in such a public manner, even if Johnson jovially compared the situation to being "like Bernini adorning the work of Michelangelo".

Ms. Knight lobbied the mostly white county commission to add more polling places when she took office, since some residents had to drive 20 miles to reach theirs.

S.E.C. officials said that the proposed increase would enable the commission to add at least 710 new jobs to the S.E.C.'s staff of 3,100.

Earlier this year the Mautner-Glick Groupropertyroperty manager, filed plans at the landmarks commission to add six floors to the building, which long ago was divided into apartments.

Since the last round of base closings 10 years ago, Congress approved provisions that make it harder for the independent, nine-member commission to add a base to the Pentagon's list.

In a letter to the S.E.C. Thursday, Mr. Gramm, Republican of Texas, and Mr. Bliley, Republican of Virginia, who are chairmen of committees that oversee the S.E.C., asked the commission to add 30 days to a comment period now set to expire Aug. 30.

Gibbs' final addition to Tyntesfield was added between 1872 and 1877, when he commissioned Arthur Blomfield to add a Gothic chapel to the northside of the house.

In 1953, Kappa Kappa Psi Grand President Hugh McMillen began the Commissioning Program to add new music to the band repertoire, beginning with a $500 commission of Don Gillis, who provided Ballet for Band for the NIB.

Mary L. Schapiro, the S.E.C. chairwoman, said this year that the commission needed to add about 800 staff positions to carry out the new responsibilities.