Sentence examples for commissioned to execute from inspiring English sources
Bronzino, who was court painter to Cosimo de Medici, was often commissioned to execute religious paintings.
He was commissioned to execute posters for events like the Kentucky Derby.
That same year he was commissioned to execute a tomb in St. Peter's to Pope Clement XIII.
The "Ecstasy of St. Francis," perhaps his finest religious work, dates from about 1732, and some three years later he was commissioned to execute an "Assumption" for the elector of Cologne.
In 1907, commissioned to execute a rich landowner's funeral monument in the Buzau Cemetery in Romania, Brancusi sculpted a statue of a young girl kneeling, entitled The Prayer, which represented the first stage of his evolution toward simplified forms.
In 1932 he won a scholarship to the Vesper George School of Art in Boston and two years later was commissioned to execute bas-reliefs for a building in his hometown.
Jackson used military commissions to execute two British traders who were suspected of helping the Seminoles.
He was rejected in various competitions for monuments to be erected in London and Paris, but finally he received a commission to execute a statue for City Hall in Paris.
The grand duchess Marie of Russia commissioned him to execute a statue of "Cain" (1844), and the grand duchess of Tuscany commissioned one of "Giotto" (1845).
Although Aretino was no longer to write laudatory letters to Tintoretto, he commissioned him to execute family portraits, and after his death, his likeness was to appear in Tintoretto's huge Crucifixion of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco (1565).
