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No, or it likely would not have been called the renaissance. It would have been the "oh, so very much darker ages" because it would have meant that patronage st
by drewcoo 6y ago
No, or it likely would not have been called the renaissance. It would have been the "oh, so very much darker ages" because it would have meant that patronage stopped.
The aristocrats were the patrons.
Patrons are the ones who have money to spare. Before that era, in that era, today, and for whatever tomorrows we have.
- mlindner 6y agoPatrons were just the mideival era venture capitalists. But they did it because they had engineering interest themselves.
- mcguire 6y agoVenture capitalists are the modern version of medieval patrons---they have money to spend to make themselves look intelligent and forward-thinking through the activities of others.