Name: Elnel A.

Tolibas
Section: BSTM – M302
Subject: Art Appreciation

1. What are the new words you encountered? Suggest looking for them in a dictionary.
 Medieval
- With its roots medi-, meaning "middle", and ev-, meaning "age", medieval
literally means "of the Middle Ages". In this case, middle means "between
the Roman empire and the Renaissance"—that is, after the fall of the great
Roman state and before the "rebirth" of culture that we call the Renaissance.
Middle Ages or Medieval Period lasted from the 5th through the most of the
15th century. Population decline, counter urbanization, collapse of
centralized authority, invasions, and mass migrations of tribes, which had
begun in Late Antiquity, continued in the Early Middle Ages.

2. According to the video, what is art?

- As stated in the video presented the definition Art in Medieval Period is it
represents financial status or social hierarchy of the person. It also shows
that the credits and popularity is gained by the buyers or clients who bought
the significant art piece. And lastly art could be define as Painting,
Architecture and Sculpture made by the Artist. For example is the famous
work or painting of Michael Angelo, “The Creation of Adam” which forms
part of the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling.

3. What are the differences between art and craft, and the artist and the artisan?
- In the video it presented that before Renaissance Humanism there are no
differences between art and craft and the artist and artisan. But in the
Renaissance Humanism in Florence Italy they begun to classified the
differences of them. Art is classified as the product of a creative work of
Artists. It can be Paintings, Architectures or Sculptures with significance
meanings behind them. And as for the Crafts it is defined as the works of
Artisans that still practice and maintained the guild traditions. Craft guilds, on
the other hand, were occupational associations that usually comprised all the
artisans and craftsmen in a particular branch of industry or commerce. There
were, for instance, guilds of weavers, dyers, and fullers in the wool trade and
of masons and architects in the building trade; and there were guilds of
painters, metal smiths, blacksmiths, bakers, butchers, leatherworkers, soap
makers, and so on.