Unpublished documents concerning the famous lawsuit of the painters: the long road traveled by 17th-century artists to obtain the recognition of their art as liberal
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https://doi.org/10.3989/aearte.2010.v83.i330.422Keywords:
Guild, Painters, Sales tax, OrdinanceAbstract
The recognition of painting as a liberal art was not the result of a single battle, but the conclusion of a long struggle by painters to defend the dignity of their art. This conflict reached its high point in the various lawsuits they undertook against the Royal Treasury, when an attempt was made to demand the same tax payments from artists as from mere artisans and tradesmen. The painters rebelled and decided to defend themselves against what they considered to be an insult to the nobility of painting and their identity as artists. In this dispute they found support in the intellectuals of their time and especially in the King, a recognized patron of artists and connoisseur of painting, as well as a practicing painter.
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