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A 5 page research paper that focuses on how art was sold in the sixteenth century, that is, the system of apprenticeship and patronage that was in place during this period. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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art have also varied. A "starving artist" in the sixteenth century, for example, would not have the same options for marketing his work as a nineteenth century artist. Imagine a
"starving artist" in the 1500s. How would he go about marketing his work and skills in order to earn a living? First of all, it should be realized by
the student researching this subject that art education, as well as the art market, during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance was vastly different than it is today. During the
medieval period, unless he was a monk, artists were considered to be craftsmen and were members of a guild (Macdonald, 2005). Guilds remained an intrinsic part of society well into
the sixteenth century. Even during the Renaissance, an art education was obtained by becoming an apprentice to an established artist (Macdonald, 2005). Hopefully, an apprentice artist would come into contact
with potential patrons during his tenure with his master and thereby begin to establish the contacts that would ensure his income when he reached masters status. To be a successful
artist required patronage; to acquire a patron required the right contacts, as one did not simply write or address the powerful people who were capable of being patrons without some
sort of introduction. While an artist could paint portraits, murals or landscapes, or sculpt busts, figures or funeral statuary, the only people who could afford such works were the most
powerful in society, that is, royalty, nobility or the Church. A brief overview of the history of patronage shows the complicated nature of the task facing our "staring artist"
in the sixteenth century. Art patronage in the early Christian Church developed fairly early in its history (Erlandson, 2000). After Christianity became the official Roman state religion during the time
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