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Artists depended on patrons and patrons needed money to sustain.
Patrons
Renaissance art patrons.
Historical paintings and architectures
Churches and convents.
Renaissance
The patrons of art in ancient Greece were the wealthy or those belonging to the upper class during this time. Wealthy patrons would commission works of arts, such as Kore statues, which was a statue of a young woman.
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Pearl Fine Art is an online arts and craft supply retailer. They sell many art supplies from canvas to paint and paintbrushes to regular art supplies. They offer painting classes as a service to its patrons.
Well they were people who financially supported artists.
The art was supported through rich patrons like the Medici of Florence.
The church and the aristocrats