ARTHIST 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Guild Of Saint Luke, Catharina Van Hemessen, Four Crowned Martyrs
1 Oct 2016
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10: artistic training + the markets for art: from renaissance guilds to art academics. And the growth of a global art market; function, form, play: architecture in the 19th. Prominent building in historic center of florence, which is unesco. In renaissance period, orsanmichele served as religious shrine also as grain exchange and warehouse (= sig role in city). Ppl met here + conducted business integral to daily lives. Production + sale of grain central to ppl"s diets + economy. Main floor 14 niches cover all 4 sides of building. 1339 gov wanted niches to be decorated w/ sculptures, commissioned by most sig guilds in city. What are guilds + how they messed up. Guild: associations for merchants and tradesppl as well as ppl practicing particular craft. 1 of major guilds was guild of silk weavers, which include artists that work w/ metals like bronze.
