Sentence examples for notable commissions from inspiring English sources

Some of the most notable commissions came from worldly cardinals such as Gian Lorenzo Bernini's patron, Scipione Borghese, who was also an avid collector of Classical antiquities and Old Master paintings.

He has had only a handful of notable commissions in the United States, and his output in New York is embarrassingly slight: a modest addition to Pratt Institute's school of architecture, a cramped (if underrated) gallery at the edge of Little Italy and a handful of interior renovations.

Other notable commissions came from automobile manufacturer Clement Studebaker for a private home (1886) in South Bend, Indiana, one for the Chicago Opera House (c. 1885; destroyed 1912), several buildings at Lake Forest College (1888 94) in Lake Forest, Illinois, and the Dearborn Observatory (1888 89) at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

If Goldsmiths were its only notable commission, it would be news enough for a young practice.

Foster picked up some of the more notable lottery commissions – the Great Court of the British Museum, the Millennium Bridge in London, the Sage.

One of many notable works commissioned by the conductor and philanthropist Paul Sacher for his Basel Chamber Orchestra, it was completed in 1941 and arguably shows, in its moody and acerbic first two movements, the strains of wartime.

The Observer and the OFNS also periodically commissioned notable writers to "undertake special tours abroad".

From Dorset he set about arranging for publication of yet another version of Seven Pillars; on the editorial advice of his friends, notably George Bernard Shaw, a sizable portion of the Oxford text was pruned for the famous 128-copy subscription edition of 1926, sumptuously printed and bound and illustrated by notable British artists commissioned by the author.

Notable among the commission's members are individuals who may end up wielding influence in the Obama adminstration: Paul Kurtz, a security consultant for the firm chaired by former Clinton terrorism czar Richard Clarke, is part of the transition team's national security group.

So for this year's NPM project, I decided to combine the two: We'd commission notable poets to write poems exclusively for YARN, and then ask those poets to solicit new work from their own writing networks.

A growing tally of notable performances and prestigious commissions attests to the visceral grip of his sound.