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Showing 1 to 20 of 420 for “"Patronage"”.
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Patronage: The Renaissance and Today
<p>Patronage, as it will be discussed in this context, is the "money and support...given to an artist, organization, etc." (Merriam-Webster.com). The word itself comes from "patronus" in the Latin language, meaning "defender, protector...advocate" (Harper, Online Etymology). The concept of …
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The patronage of Cardinal Oliviero Carafa 1430-1511
This thesis studies the patronage of an important Italian Renaissance Calrdinal, Oliviero Carafa, a topic relatively neglected in modern scholarship. It examines his patronage from a number of distinct but inter-related perspectives, namely, his position as a cardinal prince of the church, cardinal …
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Rex Whistler (1905-1944) Patronage and Artistic Identity
… to understand and assess the implications of patronage in the twentieth century and the concomitant effects upon an artist’s creative vision, voice and identity.
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Artistic Patronage at the Court of Queen Charlotte
… between oil painting and the minor arts. Her patronage supplemented the limited opportunities available to women artists in other institutions and to create new career possibilities for women. The growth of such specifically feminine artistic patronage and production has, however, gone almost …
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Patronage, performance, and reputation in the eighteenth-century church
… an exploration of the inter-connected themes of patronage, performance, and reputation. First, this thesis delineates Blackburne’s distribution of episcopal patronage across the various administrative strata of his diocese, exploring how these appointments contributed to the task of ‘turning’ the …
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Pietro Bembo’s Bias: Patronage, History, and the Italic Wars
… the effect and importance of having a strong patronage network.</p>
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Fifteenth century literary culture with particular reference to the patterns of patronage, focussing on the patronage of the Stafford family during the fifteenth century.
… the nature of the role played by literary patronage in fostering fifteenth century English literature. The topic is approached by means of a detailed examination of the books and patronage of the Stafford family. The fifteenth century witnessed the "triumph of English" and its acceptance as …
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Joachim Du Bellay's Occasional Poetry: The Poetics of Female Patronage
This study seeks to demonstrate that female patrons at the Valois court--particularly Marguerite de France, and, to a lesser extent Diane de Poitiers--had a defining influence on both the career and the aesthetic choices of the sixteenth-century French poet Joachim Du Bellay. Although it has often …
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Paris and Patronage: Christine De Pizan and Her Writer's Market
<p>Christine de Pizan (c. 1364-1431), known as the first professional female French author, was successful in becoming a professional writer because she understood the medieval manuscript business in Paris, she knew the aristocrats and royalty who might buy her works, and she knew how to market her …
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A Working Machine: Patronage Jobs and Political Services in Argentina
Why does the control of patronage significantly increase a party's chances of staying in power? What do public employees do that affect electoral competition? What motivates public employees to do it? In this dissertation, I seek to describe what it is that public employees do that affects …
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A Functional Analysis of Political Patronage in Nine Illinois Counties
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Patronage and politics at Barking Abbey, c.950 - c.1200
… of the recipients of benefactors’ religious patronage. It also uses the longer chronological scale to show that patterns of patronage from the Anglo-Saxon era were frequently inherited by the incoming Normans along with their landholdings. Through a detailed discussion of two sets of …
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Patronage and social mobility in the aristocracies of the Principate
The dissertation is entitled "Patronage and social mobility in the aristocracies of the Principate". Patronage is defined as a reciprocal exchange relationship between men of unequal social status (municipal patronage is excluded). The work falls into three parts. In the first the language of …
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East India patronage and the political management of Scotland 1720-1774
… sets out to examine and explain the use of India patronage in the government of Scotland from 1720 to 1774. The 1707 Act of Union created a complex and uncertain Scottish political world. Widespread resentment at the 1707 'betrayal' was kept simmering by pro-Jacobite sentiments and frustrations …
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Black consumers’ shopping patronage and perceptions of the Riverside Mall’s attractiveness
… of the shopping centre, travel distance, patronage frequency and transportation used. The primary objective of this study was to determine the perceptions of black consumers regarding the attractiveness of the Riverside Mall, a shopping centre in Nelspruit, the capital city in the …
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