He probably did this because, having no private income, he wished to secure patronage to help him advance politically.
Despite his strategically placed literary dedication to Cosimo, Vasari, in his forties and still without secure patronage, had to wait nearly five years for the summons to Florence to serve the Duke.
During the 19th century painters in Western societies began to lose their social position and secure patronage.
A steady drumbeat of criticism about the UN agencies during the 1990s, led by right-wing leaders in Congress, has left the impression of nearly moribund institutions, busy securing patronage slots for friends and relatives, and disconnected from the rapid advances in technology, finance and globalisation.
She commissioned works of art and secured royal patronage for writers and painters; her brother, the Marquis de Marigny, was Louis XV's minister for the arts.
He was born on 10 March 1844 in Pamplona, where his father, a bandmaster, taught him from the age of 5. Within three years he had given a concert that secured him patronage for study in Madrid.
Little wonder America wants in – and that the academy has secured patronage there every bit as prestigious as its endorsements in Britain.
Following in the footsteps of this competent practitioner, Wilson eventually secured the patronage of the great and the good.
Newspapers and magazines often provide an indispensable patronage for writers.
L. 115 334, § 5411(11)(B), struck out "district" before "bank for cooperatives" and substituted "All patronage" for "Except as provided in subsection (c) below, all patronage".
Or patronage for the arts?
