Guilds: See section on The Artist at Work: associations of tradesmen, craftsmen, artists or other professionals, organised for the regulation and control of apprenticeship and good practice. In the pre-Renaissance period.
Guilds were also patrons of art, commissioning paintings for guildhalls, contributing to the fabric fund of cathedrals and collaborating on collective projects like the statues for Orsanmichele at Florence. The guilds were not equal.
Outpost 10F Guilds - De Stijl
Abstract art is a term that encompasses many different definitions, one of which being that of De Stijl. This abstract facet of art and design, which means "The Style" in Dutch, originated in Holland at around about 1917.
Artists’ guilds normally included painters, sculptors, printers, potters, weavers, and art dealers.
academy An institution of artists and scholars, originally formed during the Renaissance to free artists from control by guilds and to elevate them from artisan to professional status.
Unlike the sitters for paintings of militia companies or archers' guilds, however, these regents and regentesses, as they were called, were not members of traditional professional associations, ...
guild - During the Middle Ages, tradesmen formed guilds for economic, social and religious purposes; there were often several trades in one guild.
The Guild was a sort of craft co-operative modelled on the medieval guilds and intended to give working men the satisfactions of craftsmanship.
The exclusion of Jews from goldsmiths guilds in great parts of Western Europe until the 18th century, particularly in Germany, forced them to commission ritual objects from Christian artisans.
As in today's unions, the guilds supervised work conditions, the number of apprentices, and materials used.
New Zealand Calligraphers A national network of affiliated calligraphy guilds
The Edward Johnston Foundation - Research centre for calligraphy and lettering arts
The Calligraphy of Medieval Music Symposium A project of the University of Toronto ...
They sought to revive the medieval artists' guilds and to renew the arts through Christian faith (in 1813 Overbeck joined the Roman Catholic Church).
The Republic was filled with decorative artists, architects, and traditional artist guilds. The area s location did not allow much outside influence, permitting the Venetian artists to develop their own style revolving around light and color.
The apprenticeship system was common across Europe when guilds were strong in the Middle Ages until the arrival of the Industrial Revolution (about 1775-1875).
Luke has been the patron saint of various painters guilds since the XV century. Luke is also the patron saints of doctors. Luke is often depicted writing his Gospel, a lying or kneeling ox serves as his desk. Also he is depicted painting the Virgin.
They lived and worked as a community, in emulation of the guilds of the Middle Ages.
to give prestige to its members; An institution of artists and scholars where art is taught as a humanist discipline along with other disciplines of the liberal arts. Originally formed during the Renaissance to free artists from control by guilds and ...
 See also: Guild, Painting, Renaissance, Roman, Movement
  
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