She is the primary patron of the avariel, or winged elves.

As the 18th century progressed, the nobility became the primary patrons of instrumental music, and there was a rise in the public taste for comic opera.

So when he lost his primary patron, he was kind of cut loose.

"We function as primary patrons for living artists."

Baldus may have thought of himself as an artist working with a camera, but his primary patron, the French Government, often used him as a photojournalist.

However, the fall of the French monarchy, which were her primary patrons, caused her banishment into the shadows.

Before this time, the church had been the primary patron of the arts.

Their primary patrons were the newly rich and enormously powerful salt merchants, whose rise in class owed a good deal to their involvement with the arts.

He was the primary patron of Haydn and builder of Esterháza (see above).

Religious themes were encouraged by art's primary patron, the Church.