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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Moulin Rogue" data-source="post: 1809766" data-attributes="member: 1192">Also be aware that the scale was small; illustrations in manuscripts are what you'll usually find in medieval art. In the Gothic era in Italy you'll get large frescoes on walls, but I don't think you'll find portable "oil on canvas" type paintings until the 15th century. Medieval sculpture also tended to be small. You'll find large figures carved into walls and adorning capitals of columns, but you won't find many freestanding statues the size of David being made in medieval times. (Donatello's David c.1430 was in fact the first large freestanding figure cast in bronze since ancient times). Among the portable kind of medieval sculptures, many were made of wood. Medieval sculpture was usually made by workshops of people who were seen as craftsmen rather than artists as we recognize them today.It was around the time of Dante (late 13th-early 14th c.) in Italy that individual painters started to get proper recognition: we can attach works of this era to the names of Cimabue, Giotto, Duccio, Simone Martini and others.In medieval times the purpose of commissioning art was more about religious devotion than displaying one's wealth and taste, but that changed in the Renaissance. Now you're getting into the portable oil-on-canvas format and naked ladies, see. As shown  in <a href="http://www.abcgallery.com/T/teniers/teniers1.html" target="_blank">this painting</a> there was actually a whole genre of "gallery-painting" in the 17th century where wealthy owners had themselves painted with a catalogue of their impressive personal collections.</blockquote>

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