Usage of the terms 'image', 'art' and 'artists' and the Medieval and Early Modern periods.

It is important to look firstly at the meaning of the three words image, art and artists; what they mean today and what they meant to the people of Medieval and Early Modern periods. The Collins dictionary defines image as 1. a mental picture of someone or something produced by the imagination or memory. 2. the appearance or impression given to the public by a person or organization. 3. a simile or metaphor. 4. the representation of a person …

…gain the title of artist until people wanted their pictures purely for aesthetic purposes. Bibliography. *Baxendal, Michelle. Reading Rembrandt: Beyond the Word - Image opposition. Cambridge. CUP. 1991. *Collins dictionary. Harper Collins. 1995. *Gombrich, Ernest. The Story of Art. Phardon 1950, 2001. *Magurn, Ruth, translated and edited by. The letters of Peter Paul Rubens. Harvard UP 1955. *Schapiro, Meyer, On the Aesthetic Attitude in Romanesque Art 1947. *Vassari, Giorgio. Lives of the Artists. A selection translated by George Bull. Penguin books, 1987.