Sentence examples for was commissioned to execute from inspiring English sources

He was commissioned to execute posters for events like the Kentucky Derby.

That same year he was commissioned to execute a tomb in St. Peter's to Pope Clement XIII.

The "Ecstasy of St. Francis," perhaps his finest religious work, dates from about 1732, and some three years later he was commissioned to execute an "Assumption" for the elector of Cologne.

In 1932 he won a scholarship to the Vesper George School of Art in Boston and two years later was commissioned to execute bas-reliefs for a building in his hometown.

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.

Domingo French was commissioned to execute the verdict.

"I was commissioned to do it.

Bronzino, who was court painter to Cosimo de Medici, was often commissioned to execute religious paintings.

Gotto was already well known in Newfoundland as he had been previously commissioned to execute the statue of the Fighting Newfoundlander located in Bowring Park.

The firm was also responsible for the bronze statue of Boudica with her daughters in her war chariot (furnished with scythes after the Persian fashion), which was commissioned by Prince Albert and executed by Thomas Thornycroft.

When Piero della Francesca was commissioned by the Corpus Domini Confraternity in 1469 to execute a panel of the "Communion of the Apostles," Giovanni Santi was not only appointed to coordinate the project, but also lodged the artist in his own house.