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These shots, from both American and French publications, concentrated on Evita's patronage of Christian Dior, fashion's Man of the Hour in the late 1940s, inventor of the "New Look" and savior of the war-wounded French couture.
Would Michelangelo have been great without the patronage of the Medicis or the competitive edge induced by Leonardo?
That a company like BMW can get brownie points for art patronage by promoting its own product is part of the reason that this exhibition took place, instead of the one examining 20 th century art at the end of the millennium, which it replaced.
Analysts credited the victory to a near-totalitarian patronage system.
Well, he did succeed in coercing Time Warner into selling its interest in the gangsta-rap heavy Interscope label--only to see the label and its artists thrive under the patronage of its new co-owners MCA.