Word: patronizer
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...years ago Stravinsky, who has written a Pater Noster, a Credo, an Ave Maria and a Mass, enthusiastically accepted a commission to compose Passion music for Venice's patron saint-at a rumored fee of $12,000. (A member of the Russian Orthodox faith, Stravinsky is very religious, but rarely goes to church in Los Angeles, where he lives, because "the singing is something terrible.") After struggling with the assignment, he turned up not with a Passion but with his Canticum-and it took a mere 17 minutes to perform. When officials protested, he replied that he could have...
Among his early distinctions, Vanderlyn was the first American painter to conquer naked flesh. Actually, he had small choice in the matter; his patron, Aaron Burr, decided it by sending him to Paris instead of London for training. The earnest student from Kingston, N.Y. struck the French capital in 1796, when Jacques-Louis David and his neoclassic followers were preparing the stage for Napoleon's posturings. Trapped in the doctrinaire icebox of neoclassicism, Vanderlyn conscientiously set about acquiring its basic asset: figure drawing. He also acquired its defects: stale colors and chill poses...
...caught Napoleon's eye. "Give the medal to that!" the Emperor ordered; overnight the American became a cynosure at the French court. When Aaron Burr came penniless to France after his trial for treason, Vanderlyn was able to repay Burr's former generosity in full, supporting his patron as he himself had been supported...
...opposite are by J. J. Kaendler, chief modeler at Meissen from 1733 to 1763, and the most brilliant in Meissen's history. Kaendler's pieces were intended chiefly for banquet settings of a sort that had previously been made in candy or wax. He could turn his patron's dining table into a miniature park or stage alive with glistening birds or gaily obscene mimes from the Italian Commedia dell'arte. Sometimes he would create a hunt, a concert, or a table-top display of drawing-room conceits. The Hand Kiss is part of a humorous...
...duty to support local people and to spur local art of quality." As a result, he has played a key role in promoting the Northwest's regional school, which includes such top artists as Tobey, Graves, Kenneth Callahan and Guy Anderson. One Seattle art dealer summed up Patron-Director Fuller's contribution with feeling: "Dr. Fuller has brought art to the Northwest and the art of the Northwest to the world...