<33 asked:


There are no important differences between how a renaissance artist and a medieval craftsman worked.
The only significant difference concerned the role of the Catholic Church.
The most important significant changes dealt with materials.
The most significant changes dealt with materials, work rules, and artistic control.

Gertrude

No Responses to “The differences between a medieval craftsman and a renaissance artist can be summarized as:?”

1. dickn2000a on May 27th, 2009 4:35 am

   You seem to have answered your own question.

2. Publius on May 28th, 2009 6:16 pm

   Is this a four part multiple choice question?

   If so, then the answer is B–the role of the Catholic Church. The role of Church was not as powerful during the Renaissance as it was during the Middle Ages (though it was still extremely powerful).

   The worldviews of Renaissance artists and Medieval artists were fundamentally different. The medieval artists viewed things solely through the prism of the church and the structure of society. The point of the art was not to be accurate, but to illustrate aspects of the church and/or the society. For example, look at a medieval drawing. It is almost never to scale. If you look closely, you will see that the importance of each person in a painting determines his/her size and and location in the painting. For example, serfs were always smaller, dimmer, and off to the edges of the paintings. The Lords and priests were larger, and more centered in the painting.

   However, in Renaissance artists broke with this tradition. With scientific advances being made, a split in the Papacy in 1378, and just artistic advances, the artists began to draw images as they saw them, with much more visual accuracy. In a sense they returned to the style of early Greek and Roman sculptures, where everything was symmetrical and realistic.