Sentence examples for wealth of patrons from inspiring English sources

"The increasing wealth of patrons, both aristocrats and merchants, made rich by textiles and the wool trade, encouraged an outpouring of investment and new commissions of art from throughout England and the Continent," he said.

They also reflected the wealth of their patrons: gold was not cheap.

Though dependent on the wealth of their male patrons, geisha are hardly their property.

A continuously inventive spirit and inquiring mind, a wealth of support from patrons, and an ever-awakening attitude toward new creative possibilities are characteristics of this remarkable age.

The plunge in stock prices, the credit squeeze and feelings of shrinking wealth among patrons have begun to have concrete effects.

Beauty can communicate meaning as in the possibility that red plumage can signal a bird's diet and quality, or gold leaf the wealth of an artist's patron.

In one aside in parentheses Mr. Duberman remarks of Kirstein, "(never a truly rich man, he gave away a larger proportion of his total wealth than most patrons of the arts ever do)." The book is at its best when Kirstein (1907-1996) isuccessfullyly engaged on multiple fronts.

In this same period, new narrative and genre themes appeared in art in response to the demands of a new class of patrons lacking either noble rank or extensive wealth.

It has been further argued that in the rural Malawian context, wealthy men are almost socially obligated to engage in multiple, transactional sex relationships in order to share their wealth as an extension of patron-client notions of citizenship [ 27].

That is an extraordinary list of patrons.

The same can be said of patrons.