Sentence examples for individual patronage from inspiring English sources

In recent years architectural historians have been rewriting the history of Renaissance and Baroque architecture in terms of individual patronage.

Beyond the galvanizing beauty of the music, it was as a tribute to two things whose future seems uncertain — individual patronage of the arts and the printed book — that the performance took on a special poignancy, even a quiet majesty.

The museum's future, like that of libraries, universities and other art museums beyond tourist meccas, lies in making a case for government, foundation and individual patronage by being a hotbed of creativity.

On the one hand, the system differed from the kind of tyrannical or individual patronage the poetry of Pindar shows still existed in, for example, 5th-century Sicily or at Dorian Cyrene, which still had a hereditary monarchy (the Battiads) until the second half of the 5th century.

In addition, private patronage also has become important for public museums, which often find themselves competing with private museums for additional funding from individual and corporate sources.

To raise public and private patronage.

One of the unique things about that cultural economy is its typically British, apparently muddled patchwork of provision - through local government, central government, the Arts Council, individual and corporate patronage, and the BBC.

The effect of this surveillance is arresting with a touch of whimsy, but itself demonstrates the spatial and temporal connections of individuals bound in patronage to the arts, evoking an alien surrounding.

There's no culture of political patronage, so individual candidates and personalities matter far more than party labels.

The laws of the land and the reach of state or federal agencies are unaffected.What is affected, however, is the ability of governments and of individual politicians to use patronage at favoured firms to help their friends, to get favours in return, to support special interests such as trade unions, and, in broad political terms, to paint themselves as patriots.

After four years of conservative government, individuals still cannot set patronage of the arts against their tax liability, and the fiscal incentives for corporations are more theoretical than real.According to the Council of Europe, there is proportionately less private cultural sponsorship in Italy than in Germany or Britain, though more than in France.