Viacheslav Bobarikin Bobarikin 1
Diana Gisolfi
HA501 Italian Renaissance Art History
12/03/2014
Painter’s Guild of Renaissance Florence The guilds (referred to as the Arti) of Renaissance Florence were associations of craftsmen and merchants that represented the specific arts and trades within the city/state of Florence throughout 12th-16th century, with the cloth merchant’s guild being the fist to be documented in 1150. Consisting of seven major guilds, five medium guilds and nine minor guilds, each guild was responsible with controlling the quality and quantity of artisans and production of goods and services as well as encourage a highly efficient and specialized division of labor through highly detailed statutes and regulations governing the quality of its product, the methods of manufacture, and the prices to be charged. These regulations were meant to promote a uniform ideal of production for members to adhere to, making exactly the same thing by the same methods and selling it at the same price. Even the hours of labor were rigidly controlled. For example, a member of a guild was not allowed to work before sunrise or after sunset. The main purpose however
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Only guild members possessed the privilege of voting and holding civic office. Guild members. Unskilled workers, known as ciompi, were not eligible for such rights. Discontented with being relegated into civic margins, they revolted, starting a guilds of their own. Learned gentlemen, called ‘those who did not work with their hands’, were not members of guilds, either. They were involved in one of the seven liberal arts: grammar, logic, music, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry and