Miuccia Prada is one of the world’s great patrons of contemporary art.
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Nate Freeman,
Vanity Fair,
9 Oct. 2026
For all its flowering of original thought and creativity, the Renaissance was ultimately a time of patronage, and the patrons both held the power and used it to enrich their own palaces and places of worship.
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