MEDIEVAL ART And the Transition to the Renaissanc

Art in the earlier Middle Ages was a craftsmanship product. Master artisans might be well-paid and respected in their communities, but they did not sign their work or project their own personalities into their whole body of work any more than any other master craftsman did. They worked in different traditional styles in different parts of Europe -- predominantly a Byzantine tradition in Italy, and so-called Gothic tradition in the north. In both traditions, realistic representation was less important that stylized elements of composition.

In thirteenth-century Italy, this traditiona

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