After an extended stay in Città di Castello in the mid 1490s, the artist went on to execute a large commission at the Monastery of Monte Oliveto Maggiore, south of Siena, decorating the main cloister with the "Legend of St. Benedict".
Imagine a city where Jacques-Louis David insisted on working to execute a momentous commission from the French king; where a 21-year-old aspiring artist from Philadelphia named Benjamin West was taken to meet the pope; where Fragonard, Piranesi, Antonio Canova, Angelika Kauffmann and Jean-Antoine Houdon lived, dined, traded ideas and drank coffee together.
As I was about leaving the room, one of the persons we had met with at the coffee-house, asked me if I would be kind enough to execute a similar commission for him; I answered Yes, willingly, and he took a note-case from his pocket, in which there was a 5l.
He had arrived with a commission to execute a series of etchings for the Fine Art Society.
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.
That same year he was commissioned to execute a tomb in St. Peter's to Pope Clement XIII.
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.
After taking up a teaching post at the University of Chicago, where she remained until 1977, Ms. Duckworth was commissioned to execute a suite of murals for the entry atrium of the university's new Geophysical Sciences Building.
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).
Philip II, the king of Spain, commissioned Tiburcio Spanoqui and Bautista Antonelli to design and execute a defensive system that would protect the Spanish fleet.
