patron of arts
Arts funding supporter
A patron of arts is someone who financially supports artists, musicians, writers, or cultural institutions.
Historically, wealthy individuals and aristocrats sustained creative work before modern funding existed: The Medicis were famous patrons of arts during the Renaissance.
Today the phrase extends to anyone who champions creative endeavors through money, influence, or advocacy.
- fundingSupplying monetary resources
- benefactorOne who gives aid
- philanthropistDonor to charitable causes
- Medici familyFlorentine banking dynasty
- sponsorFunder of activities
old money · endowment · private collection · painting · commissioning · commissioned portrait · sculpture · Renaissance Italy · donor · architecture · grant · mentorship · gallery opening · opera · cultural legacy · ballet · subsidy · Carnegie Hall
- Catherine IICatherine the Great, empress, autocrat, Romanov dynasty, Potemkin
- worldlyworldly, cosmopolitan, globe-trotter, globetrotter, world traveler
- AkbarAkbar, Salim, religious tolerance
patron of artsiconoclast
Attacker of cherished beliefs
censor · philistine · defunder · vandal
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