The Skill and the Sculptor
by E. Adina Gordon
As in classical Greece, sculptors of the Renaissance rose to the level of poets and philosophers, attaining a status not afforded their medieval counterparts. Assistants to those Renaissance masters are remembered only if they later attained fame for their own work. In affirmation of the artist as the intellectual creator of meaning and content whose models were translated by other hands into the finished product, sculptors from the Renaissance onward were accorded professional status and held in high esteem in society. |
