guilds. Apprentices with unusual talent might eventually become masters and run their

own workshops. Talented individuals, such as Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo,

were no longer seen as artisans but as artistic geniuses with creative energies akin to the

divine. Artists were considered heroes, individuals who were praised more for their

creativity than for their competence as craftspeople. As society excused their

eccentricities and valued their creative genius, the artists of the High Renaissance

became the first to embody the modern concept of the artist.

Leonardo da Vinci, was considered one of the great Italian Renaissance artists.

Renaissance artists considered the imitation of nature their primary goal. Their search

for naturalism became an end in itself, to persuade onlookers of the reality of the object

or event they were portraying. The new artistic standards reflected a new attitude of

mind as well as where human beings became the focus of attention, the “center and

measure of all things.” Leonardo and other Italians maintained that it was Giotto in the

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