INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
BEGINNING OF RENAISSANCE
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a paying customer.
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a drink.
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someone who loves their country.
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someone who gives money or other support to artists & intellectuals.
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Detailed explanation-1: -While today we often focus on the artist who made an artwork, in the renaissance it was the patron-the person or group of people paying for the image-who was considered the primary force behind a work’s creation.
Detailed explanation-2: -Kings, popes, princes, cardinals, poets, and humanists, as well as cathedrals, convents, and monasteries-all sorts of patrons shaped Renaissance artistic culture by engaging artists to fulfill their commissions.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Medici, an art-loving family of wealthy bankers (and three popes), helped fund the Renaissance. They regularly hosted artists and commissioned art for their palace and their family tomb-the Medici Chapel-a masterpiece by Michelangelo.
Detailed explanation-4: -According to humanist philosophies, art was morally uplifting for all of society. So when patrons commissioned a major work of public art, it was seen as a gift to the people. This added a final motivation for patrons to commission art, as a way to increase their fame and immortalize their legacies.