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How were Renaissance artists paid?

2024-09-01 10:10:00, Blog CNA

How were Renaissance artists paid?

The Renaissance artists working in Florence between 1430 and 1530 were workers of beauty. They all started in the shop, a kind of workshop, where work was divided between apprentices, foremen and assistants.

Even a genius like Leonardo da Vinci had spent several years locked in a Florentine workshop, the famous one of Andrea del Verrocchio. And he was not the only star to emerge from there, artists of the caliber of Pietro Perugino, Domenico Ghirlandaio and Sandro Botticelli emerged in the most important atelier of the Medici Signoria.

Was the artist's work profitable?

The most famous masters earned well and lived a comfortable life. In Florence, Michelangelo received 3,000 florins for the fresco of the Battle of Cascina in the Sala del Gran Consiglio, a sum a hundred times higher than that paid to lesser-known names. And it was not an isolated case, Donatello received 15 to 25 percent more than his fellow sculptors.

There were different payment methods, some receiving compensation in monthly installments, others accepting small regular payments.

Finally, many accepted food, shelter, and clothing in exchange for some money. While working at the Certosa di Firenze in 1506, the young assistants of the painter Mariotto Albertinelli raided the monastery's pantry, as they did not have enough food.

In Florence, in order to work, artists were forced to join a guild. For this reason, they were divided according to specialization, joining those who did professions with which they had something in common.

Painters were enrolled in the society of doctors and apothecaries, as the latter sold them the pigments needed for mixing colors, goldsmiths were part of the silk art, along with goldsmiths and gold spinners, because they were considered the link between art of jewelry and that of silk.

The many craftsmen and workshops where wood, stone and marble were worked formed the art of the stone and wood masters, represented by sculptors and figurative carpenters./ Adapted from CNA





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