The Craft

How does the meaning of the words "art" and "vessel" diverge in the Renaissance? What do they mean in the Middle?

How does the meaning of the words "art" and "vessel" diverge in the Renaissance? What do they mean in the Middle Ages?

In the Middle Ages, the "arts" are intellectual types of courses taught at universities such as the liberal arts. Architects Painters, sculptors, and were even regarded as craftsmen or artisans, goldsmiths and weavers of tapestries. It requires special training, but his work was not considered intellectually based, not were classified at the same level as, for example, writers and academics. This is one reason why we know so few names of artists before the 14 th century - the Age Media too late - because the names of those who created the art is not seen nothing more worthy of recording the names of others who worked with their hands. Interestingly, artists were considered significantly higher in ancient Greece and Rome, just enough for us to really know the names of a number of them. All this began to change in the late Middle Ages, as some artists, in part due to the rise of the city of relatively stable states and nations allowed noble aristocratic patronage for which we have records began to be searched. In the early 15 th century, people like Leon Battista Alberti (himself from a family of good breeding and high education) began to advocate a view of the intellectual architects and artists, along with writers and academics. This new attitude did not fully take hold until the century 16, when the biographer Giorgio Vasari as videws published their admiration of artists as artists in various cities founded schools that offer classes and lectures (to Unlike the traditional apprentice system), but we can say that this new understanding of the artist is a product of Century 15.

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