Patronage

The Gilded Age was a period of extreme wealth inequality, similar to society in 1984. During the Gilded Age, the practice of patronage was commonly used for appointing jobs to friends and supporters for their loyalty regardless of their qualifications. Businessmen and politicians often provided work for those they favored, rather than families in desperate need. “One of the things we have to understand about the Gilded Age is that the number of individuals who become employees, who become…

society. These dominate composers—and less well known composers—seen social changed in the following aspect the rise of the patronage system and freelancing to support themselves and , the rise of the middle class and the rise of amateur musicians. Firstly, during the Age of Enlightenment composers and musicians alike worked in a program known as the patronage system. Within a patronage system, musicians and composers would work as servants to noblemen; writing, conducting and sometimes…

This article attempts to define whether literary patronage existed in Roman elegists’ literary relationships. To be more specific, Gold uses the idea that should a literary patronage exist, then could it be interpreted in the context of being a socio-historical document or a literary artifact? In order to explore the overall question, Gold acknowledges the fact that there is a lack of evidence about whether our understanding of the word patronage can be applied to the Romans at all as the Roman…

For the Renaissance to happen artists had to have patronage, it was when a wealthy person or family financed artist projects, one of the most powerful patrons was the Medici family. What you are going to read next is, Did the Medici patronage limit what artists could express through their work? Can they express themselves in this? Or they did just what the Medici family wanted. First you got to…

better than the Medici's of Florence. Essentially a wealthy Florentine banking family, their house and family contributed greatly to this Age of Enlightenment. Other that being admirers of the arts, what benefit could the Medici family gain from such patronage? Commissioning grand works of art held multiple benefits for the patron, it could enhance their family's status from a spiritual, and nobility…

a whole, the images conjured would most likely be composed primarily of the Roman marble statues developed from the Greeks which dominate art museums and the public’s perception of ancient Mediterranean art. In his article “Portraits, Power, and Patronage in the Late Roman Republic”, Jeremy Tanner analyzes why many surviving statues from the last few centuries BCE, corresponding with the late Roman Republic, adopt a style of veristic realism, occasionally with the combination of idealized, nude…

attributes dealing with buyer information. Results indicated that general opinions and activities and store attribute perceptions precede consumer attitudes toward stores and store choice. Furthermore, this model gave more comprehensive picture of patronage…

Clientelism and Political Patronage illustrate the relationship between patron and client in which both groups have a close relationship, intimate, and they depend on each other. Basically, patron-client relationships are reciprocal. Patron-client is an unequal relationship when one group become more powerful rather than other group. This means that client is powerless and they were under control by patron. However, the concept of Political Clientelism and Political Patronage are different in…

Republic of Florence for a significant portion of the 15th and 16th centuries and they were the most respected of the merchant families of the time. The Medici family were patrons of many famous artists and scholars of Italy and as a result of their patronage the Medici family has become synonymous with the cultural phenomenon of the Italian Renaissance. The Renaissance, beginning in Florence and spreading throughout the rest of Europe, was the rebirth of classical civilization. The arts made…

the forefront of the mind. Yet their success, much like many other influential artists of the era, stems from patronage and playing well in a political minefield. Though quite a few who were patrons were powerful men of the courts who used art as a demonstration of their power, the wives and other women of higher social status made an incredible impact on art through their own patronage. In a society of high morality and virtue, how were these women so influential in the arts? Through…