Despite the arguably greater architectural inventiveness of Borromini and Cortona, Bernini's artistic pre-eminence, particularly during the reigns of popes Urban VIII ( 1623 – 1644 ) and Alexander VII ( 1655 – 1665 ), meant he was able to secure the most important commission in the Rome of his day, St. Peter's Basilica.

" Despite the artistic expressions used in these types of friendship books, the basic rules of passing the friendship book to person to person is the same.

Despite the fact that he was a naturalistic novelist, he admired writers like Leo Tolstoy, for their great artistic style.

Despite artistic acclaim throughout its history, financial difficulties and funding withdrawals led to its sudden closure in November 1999.

Despite their usurpation of imperial authority, the Fujiwara presided over a period of cultural and artistic flowering at the imperial court and among the aristocracy.

Despite these artistic differences, both were professional and their collaboration was a fruitful one.

Despite her financial success and the recognition gained for her artistic achievements, her fame was eclipsed by that of her son.

Despite the fact that Nordau was Jewish and a key figure in the Zionist movement ( Lombroso was also Jewish ), his theory of artistic degeneracy would be seized upon by German National Socialists during the Weimar Republic as a rallying point for their anti-Semitic and racist demand for Aryan purity in art.

Despite this, the album's producer, Paul Rothchild, considered it a commercial failure, even if it was an artistic triumph: " We all thought it was the best album.

Despite the inauspicious beginning, Antheil found Paris, at the time a center of musical and artistic innovation, to be a " green tender morning " compared to the " black night " of Berlin.

Despite the fact that the Athenian songs were not autonomous artistic creations ( in contrast with the serenades ) and despite their original connection with mainly dramatic forms of Art, they eventually became hits as independent songs.

Despite his later political beliefs, he was, in the early years of his career, a self-proclaimed and unrepentant artistic snob who firmly believed that true art was only for the intellectual elite.

Despite creating a number of hugely popular musicals in the late 1970s and 1980s such as The Phantom of the Opera, Sweeney Todd, and Evita, Prince had his first artistic failure with Stephen Sondheim in 1981 with Merrily We Roll Along.

Despite this diversity, there are some unifying artistic themes when considering the totality of the visual culture from the continent of Africa.

Despite the fact that the group billed itself as " The Organic Anti-Beat Box Band ", Kiedis states that Slovak showed the group that drum machines could be used as artistic instruments.

Despite having no formal artistic training, he began to sell cartoons on a freelance basis and soon left the agency to work full-time as a professional cartoonist.

Despite his father's denigration of Steranko's artistic talent, and the boy's ambition to become an architect, Steranko paid for his art supplies by collecting discarded soda bottles for the bottle deposit and bundled old newspapers to sell to scrap-paper dealers.

Despite these artistic and mystical leanings, Guido was expected, as the eldest child, to follow in his father's footsteps as a businessman.

Despite lack of family artistic tradition, he was keen to draw from the time he could hold a pencil.

Despite his humble beginnings, working as a street vendor, he had a strong affinity for artistic endeavors and took up jobs on the radio, circus and television.

Despite having studied film at the VGIK, he discovered his artistic path only after seeing Andrei Tarkovsky's dreamlike first film Ivan's Childhood.

Despite the offer of help from Jouvet to make the Vieux-Colombier both an artistic and financial success, Copeau chose his independence.

Despite frequent cultural and artistic exchange, the Antwerp Mannerists ( 1500 – 1530 )— chronologically overlapping with but unrelated to Italian Mannerism — were among the first artists in the Low Countries to clearly reflect Italian formal developments.

Despite a few exceptions, Tabu is best known for acting in artistic, low-budget films that go on to garner more critical appreciation than substantial box office figures.

Despite the drawbacks, sustained artillery fire proved deadly during the engagement, especially during the French cavalry attack.

Despite these sometimes substantial drawbacks, Auger electron spectroscopy is a widely used surface analysis technique that has been successfully applied to many diverse fields ranging from gas phase chemistry to nanostructure characterization.

Despite their drawbacks, Haüy promoted their use with zeal: the books presented a new and handsome system which could be readily comprehended by those with eyesight.

Despite its advantages, VBR has three main drawbacks: first, by only specifying quality, there is no guarantee about the final average bit-rate.

His arguments against the doctrine of revolutionary unions known as anarcho-syndicalism were later developed in a series of articles, where he wrote “ I am against syndicalism, both as a doctrine and a practice, because it strikes me as a hybrid creature .” Despite their drawbacks, he advocated activity in the trade unions, both because they were necessary for the organization and self-defense of workers under a capitalist state regime, and as a way of reaching broader masses.

Despite many improvements, the Plus also had its drawbacks.

Despite these drawbacks he possessed the elements of a great painter.

Despite all the potential advantages of formal performance appraisals ( PAs ), there are also potential drawbacks.

Despite the advantages over competing technology at the time ( namely VHS and Betamax ), the format does have drawbacks.

Despite these drawbacks, minstrelsy provided African American performers with their first professional stage outlet.

Despite the dramatic improvement in terms of ergonomics offered by the responsiveness, sharpness, and uniformity of its active matrix panel, one of the drawbacks of the Portable was poor readability in low light situations.

Despite its advantages, the boarding bridge had serious drawbacks: it could not be used in rough seas since the stable connection of two working ships endangered each other's structure.

Despite its drawbacks, there are two important reasons why Dial-on-Demand routing is used today: reliability and cost.

Despite its drawbacks, the drawover vaporiser is cheap to manufacture and easy to use.

Despite this, there were drawbacks.

Despite these drawbacks, Steeplechase still had significant patronage to keep the park profitable.

Despite these drawbacks, Laker Airways took the aircraft.

Despite these drawbacks, many agree that Rosenberg presents a compelling argument against the common wisdom that the United States Supreme Court is a powerful judiciary body capable of introducing significant change.

Despite the hand cannon's serious drawbacks, especially early in its development, it grew and evolved to become the ubiquitous ranged weapon of later European wars.

Despite the drawbacks, the elimination of extra operations often makes using form tools the most efficient option.

Despite the potential drawbacks of e5, it serves the positive function of " kicking " the centralized white knight on d4 back to a more passive location either on Nb3 or ( less commonly ) where it was originally positioned on Nf3.

Despite the drawbacks that the digital space has caused the music industry, the transition into the online space has allowed for lower expenses such as lower coordination costs, lower distribution costs, as well as the possibility for redistributed total profits.

Despite these drawbacks, the complex has been successful in maintaining a high occupancy rate, rarely dipping below 90 % in the complex's nearly 40-year life.

Despite being very stable, the economy shared the same drawbacks of other countries from Eastern Europe-it traded almost entirely with the Soviet Union ( more than 60 %) and planners did not take into account whether there were markets for some of the goods produced.