During the 1860s, its congresses should serve as a vast commission of enquiry and should eventually lead to a general definition of citizenship in Europe which could be implemented in national legislations.
Cellini is late with a vast statue commissioned by the Pope.
But the vast majority were commissioned later, from the end of Reconstruction to the present.
Handicapped by a budget considered too small for such a vast task, the commission's work has been slow.
While the vast majority of commissioning decisions apply to a population, or a cohort of patients, that population is made up of individuals, each with their own life story.
Sarah Wollaston, a former GP and member of the House of Commons Health Select Committee, said: "NHS England is increasingly commissioning vast sums of public money and we need to know who is getting invited to sit on what panels and what potential conflicts of interest they might have".
Writers and artists, lured home by promises of fat commissions and vast print runs, found themselves turning out unreadable novels and Socialist Realist murals.But Stalinism contained the seeds of its own destruction.
Getting a grip on the UN's vast array of agencies, commissions, programmes and envoys is a management job from hell.Mr Ban is also expected to man the bully pulpit.
The architects of Herzog & de Meuron converted a derelict former power station into a cavernous art space, establishing three floors for post-1900 works, plus the vast Turbine Hall for commissions of contemporary art, among them pieces by Louise Bourgeois, Olafur Eliasson, and Ai Weiwei.
In 1948 a Lakota chief commissioned a vast carving of Crazy Horse, a famous Indian warrior.
