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Catherine de' Medici was a patron of the arts made a significant contribution to the French Renaissance. Catherine was inspired by the example of her father-in-law, King Francis I of France (reigned 1515–1547), who had hosted the leading artists of Europe at his court.
In California, she finished her doctoral thesis on the art patronage of Maria de' Medici (1978) after which she taught at colleges and universities in the Los Angeles area. She was an adjunct assistant professor at Occidental College in 1979, 1981 and 1982, and she was a field faculty advisor at Goddard College from 1975 to 1979.
From the ancient world onward, patronage of the arts was important in art history.It is known in greatest detail in reference to medieval and Renaissance Europe, though patronage can also be traced in feudal Japan, the traditional Southeast Asian kingdoms, and elsewhere—art patronage tended to arise wherever a royal or imperial system and an aristocracy dominated a society and controlled a ...
An overflow crowd told a city task force Thursday the center is one of the only places in Fort Worth than nurtures local artists. The city looking for ways to fund the fixes. Fort Worth needs $26 ...
The Woman's Club of Fort Worth occupies a 2.2-acre (0.89 ha) site on Pennsylvania Avenue in Fort Worth's Near Southside, and includes structures in the Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Italian Renaissance Revival, and Craftsman styles. All structures in the complex are painted "antique Spanish white" to unify the disparate architectural styles.
Two developers are competing for the opportunity to redevelop Fort Worth’s community arts center. The nearly 70-year-old building was the one of the city’s first public art museums, but after ...
Giovanni di Paolo was an important patron of the arts, matched only by Cosimo de' Medici in fifteenth-century Florence. [4]: 105 He commissioned the building of the Palazzo Rucellai, designed by Leon Battista Alberti, and of the Loggia Rucellai. [1]
The 70-year-old Fort Worth Community Arts Center needs $30M just to fix known problems. The city will consider demolition to create a new “world-class cultural hub.”