In the 20th century, following all European wars, several repatriation commissions were created to supervise the return of war refugees, displaced persons, and prisoners of war to their country of origin.

While his style of painting was openly disdained by pre-eminent Italian painters in Rome and Bologna, such as Sacchi, Albani, and Reni, this did not translate into a poverty of commissions.

1965 found Waddell and his growing family moving to Greece where he continued working on commissions as well as soaking up the ancient Greek traditions in sculpture.

The 1967 Leicestershire Schools Music Festival included a number of LSSO commissions and in May that year Ridout ’ s dance drama Funeral Games for a Greek Warrior made its debut at De Montfort Hall.

Located on the Greek island of Syros and in Dawson City, Canada, false subway entrances are part of a the Metro-Net World Connection series ( 1993 – 7 ) Kippenberger built as private commissions ; a sizable length of subway grating, complete with the sounds of trains and gusts of wind, was exhibited posthumously at the Venice Biennale.

There will be premieres of new works, made possible through Ford Foundation commissions: Carlisle Floyd's Mystery, with Phyllis Curtin as soprano soloist.

His early Roman commissions included terracotta and some marble portrait busts, while he supported himself with small works like crucifixes.

Ximenes was involved in all the major official monumental projects in Italy from the 1880s on and devoted his energies as from 1911 primarily to commissions for important public works in São Paulo, Kiev, New York and Buenos Aires.

A few important commissions came to him ; the French governor of Rome asked him to paint Virgil reading the Aeneid ( 1812 ) for his residence, and to paint two colossal works — Romulus's victory over Acron ( 1812 ) and The Dream of Ossian ( 1813 )— for Monte Cavallo, a former Papal residence undergoing renovation to become Napoleon's Roman palace.

In the late 1970s and during the 1980s, Lichtenstein received major commissions for works in public places: the sculptures Lamp ( 1978 ) in St. Mary ’ s, Georgia ; Mermaid ( 1979 ) in Miami Beach ; the 26 feet tall Brushstrokes in Flight ( 1984, moved in 1998 ) at Port Columbus International Airport ; the five-storey high Mural with Blue Brushstrokes ( 1984 – 85 ) at the Equitable Center, New York ; and El Cap de Barcelona ( 1992 ) in Barcelona.

Other resources include illustrated information on all works in Tate's Collection of British and Modern international art, structured and informal e-learning opportunities for all visitors, over 600 hours of archived webcast events, all articles from the magazine Tate Etc., and a series of bespoke net art commissions.

The City Council works with 19 boards and commissions ( 16 active, 3 inactive ).

The City of McCook also hosts thirteen advisory boards and commissions for public service, public works, and the functions of the aforementioned departments and offices.

In the later part of his life Tippett refused to allow commissions for concertos and other works tailor-made for specific artists to divert him from his creative goals.

Koussevitzky started a tradition that was to be continued by the orchestra with commissions by Henri Dutilleux for its 75th anniversary, Roger Sessions, and Andrzej Panufnik, for the 100th, and lately for the 125th works by Leon Kirchner, Elliott Carter, and Peter Lieberson.

He received several commissions from the court for works to celebrate the French victory at the Battle of Fontenoy and the marriage of the Dauphin to Infanta Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain.

His commissions of new works enlarged the cello repertoire more than any previous cellist: he gave the premiere of 117 compositions.

The company also sponsored LSO commissions of new works by British composers.

From the 18th century the number of religious works produced by leading artists declined sharply, though important commissions were still placed, and some artists continued to produce large bodies of religious art on their own initiative.

The sculptor Sir William Goscombe John made many works for Welsh commissions, although he had settled in London.

Williamson was a prolific composer at this time, receiving many commissions and often performed his own works, both on organ and piano.

He acted as Paris agent for the empress in the purchase of works of art, and executed many confidential commissions for her.

Lorenzo's works remained popular in the 1420, as testified by the numerous commissions he received, such as the Stories of the Virgin in the Bartolini Salimbeni Chapel of Santa Trinita, one of his few frescoes.

Note: An exhaustive list of Opie's exhibited works, private commissions etc.

His time was also much occupied with portraiture, many of his works of this class being royal commissions.

His Montjuic Communications Tower in Barcelona, Spain ( 1991 ) in the heart of the 1992 Olympics site, as well as the Allen Lambert Galleria in Toronto, Canada ( 1992 ), were important works and turning points in his career, leading to a wide range of commissions.

He also received a steady flow of orchestral commissions, leading to works such as his Welsh Rhapsody for the Cardiff Festival in 1904, featuring as its climax " Men of Harlech ".

In addition to the core operatic repertoire, ENO has presented a wide range of works, from early operas by Monteverdi to new commissions, operetta and Broadway shows.

Young Franck had commissions both in Paris and in Orléans for these activities, and for the composition of songs and small works.

The Armed Forces Epidemiological Board agreed to submit each month a report for one of its 12 commissions, so that each commission will report once a year on some phase of its work calculated to be of particular interest and value to medical officers of the Armed Forces.

and he has served our country well as a scientific statesman on international commissions.

* Judges ' commissions are valid quamdiu se bene gesserint ( during good behaviour ), and if they do not behave themselves they can be removed only by both Houses of Parliament, or the one House of Parliament, depending on the legislature's structure.

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That meant limits on the powers of the Crown, since he found the institutions of Parliament to be better informed than commissions appointed by the executive.

Usually those commissions and leading groups have jurisdiction on both Party and State apparatus, and include ranking leaders up to the President of the People's Republic of China and the Premier of the State Council.

On 2002-12-12 Eritrea and Ethiopia signed a peace treaty ending their war and created a pair of binding judicial commissions, the Eritrea-Ethiopia Border Commission and the Eritrean-Ethiopian Claims Commission, to rule on their disputed border and related claims.

* 1572 – Elizabeth I of England issues a proclamation which revokes all commissions on account of the frauds which they had fostered.

Later on, however, they were in competition for commissions and fierce rivalries developed, particularly between Bernini and Borromini.

The Independent High Commission for Human Rights, the Independent High Electoral Commission, and the Commission on Integrity are independent commissions subject to monitoring by the Council of Representatives.

In 2006 the Bush Administration announced that it was " transferring high-value Al Qaeda detainees from CIA secret prisons so they could be put on trial by military commissions.

His pictures of Italian peasant life and pastoral genre scenes became very popular with British visitors on the continent and generated multiple commissions for his work.

Among the distinguished foreign officers given commissions in the 60th ( Royal Americans ) was Henri Bouquet, a Swiss citizen, whose ideas on tactics, training and man-management ( including the unofficial introduction of the rifle and ' battle-dress `) would become universal in the British Army some 150 years later.

The IMA Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names recently adopted ( in 2009 ) a hierarchical scheme for the naming and classification of mineral groups and group names and established seven commissions and four working groups to review and classify minerals into an official listing of their published names.

In Jefferson's opinion, the undelivered commissions, not having been delivered on time, were void.

Also, it has been argued that Justice Marshall should have recused himself on the grounds that he was still acting Secretary of State at the time the commissions were to be delivered and it was his brother, James Marshall, who was charged with delivering a number of the commissions.

" The Early medieval Codex Argenteus and Codex Vercellensis, the Stockholm Codex Aureus and the Codex Brixianus give a range of luxuriously produced manuscripts all on purple vellum, in imitation of Byzantine examples, like the Rossano Gospels, Sinope Gospels and the Vienna Genesis, which at least at one time are believed to have been reserved for Imperial commissions.

Once there, participants divided the congress into two commissions, one on amateurism and the other on reviving the Olympics.

From 1978 to 1983, he was a representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, and he has worked on various other disarmament committees and commissions.

It had been expected that the members of the preparatory commissions, where the Curia was heavily represented, would be confirmed as the majorities on the conciliar commissions.