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Statue of David by Michelangelo, who many view as one of the greatest artists of western civilization.
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THE ARTIST
The sculptors who created the statues of ancient Greece were treated
with disdain by their contemporaries, who saw the menial task of chipping
images out of stone as a low form drudgery. Writing in the 1st century AD
the Roman writer Seneca looked at their work and said:
"One venerates the divine images, one may pray and sacrifice to them, yet
one despises the sculptors who made them".
Since antiquity artists have attempted to throw off the slur of manual
labour and present themselves as gifted intellectuals on a higher level than
mere artisans or craftsmen. By the Romantic period Wordsworth claimed that
poets were
'endowed with a greater knowledge of human nature and a more comprehensive
soul than are supposed to be common in mankind'.
How did the artist become a special kind of human being? What role did
aristocratic patronage of the arts play in changing the status of the
artist? And how have we constructed the image of the artist ?
Guests
With me to discuss the status of the artist is:
Emma Barker, Lecturer in Art
History at The Open University
Thomas Healy, Professor of Renaissance
Studies at Birkbeck University of London
Tim Blanning, Professor of
Modern European History at the University of Cambridge and author of The
Culture of Power and The Power of Culture
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