| LIPPI | Italian artist who was commissioned by the Medici family to create the panel paintings The Annunciat |
| OFILI | Turner Prize-winning artist who was commissioned by the Clothworkers Company to create The Caged Bird's Song tapestry (5) |
| COSIMO | Forename of the banker depicted in portraits by his court painter Agnolo Bronzino who was the first member of the Medici family to rule Florence (6) |
| FLORENCE | Once ruled by the Medici family, the capital of Tuscany, site of the Uffizi Gallery (8) |
| BALLA | Giacomo, Italian artist who was one of the founders of Futurism (5) |
| ELGAR | Forming the basis of a long friendship, who was helped with technical details by the conductor W.H. Reed when he was commissioned by the violinist Fritz Kreisler to write Violin Concerto (1910)? (5) |
| RAMMED | Forced to march back by the Medici at centre (6) |
| MONET | "I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel" writer |
| ARTERY | Paintings the queen found before end of day showing blood vessel (6) |
| EASTEREGG | The House of Faberge was commissioned by Tsar Alexander III to create a special version of this Paschal gift (6,3) |
| BOTTICELLI | Florentine painter who worked for the Medici family throughout most of his life; his works include Primavera and a depiction of a goddess standing in a scallop shell in The Birth of Venus (10) |
| LEONARDO | What was the first name of the Italian artist who painted Mona Lisa ? (8) |
| LEOXI | Pope from the Medici family |
| LEOX | Pope of the Medici family |
| LORENZO | Art patron in the Medici family |
| POPLARS | Deciduous trees, the wood of which was used for panel paintings such as the Mona Lisa (7) |
| NIEMEYER | Influenced by Le Corbusier, which Brazilian architect was commissioned to design the principal build |
| PROMISEDLAND | 1987 film starring Kiefer Sutherland and Meg Ryan that was the first film to be commissioned by the Sundance Film Festival |
| THREEGRACES | The -, sculpture by Antonio Canova commissioned by the 6th Duke of Bedford for Woburn Abbey (5,6) |
| MANTEGNA | Italian artist who painted The Madonna of the Cherubim in 1485 (8) |
