Patronage [ Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… and continue the (idealized) tradition of the patron as rewarding merit. Patronage of the other arts and the sciences had its own specific differences, but the general trend that has here been sketched – away from individual … can be found there as well. Perhaps the first area in which direct patronage stopped being the dominant factor were the sciences – indeed, this is not even an area that is readily associated with individual patronage, although Renaissance … scientists were routinely dependent on patrons. The major factor here is a shift in the way that societies organized science, the accumulation and dissemination of knowledge, a development that favoured institutions over individuals. …
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