The carpet-weaving traditions of Babylon appear to have been inherited by the occupiers of the soil, as it is supposed that the Saracens learned from Persia the art of weaving pile carpets, and imported thence craftsmen into Spain.
The Plumarii mentioned by Pliny were craftsmen in the art of acu pingere, or painting with the needle.
No craftsmen bear a part We make of Nature's giant powers The slaves of human Art.
On the first of his cylinders he also states that the Elamite came from Elam and the man of Susa from Susa, presumably to take part as skilled craftsmen in the construction of the temple.
For the construction of his temples Ur-Ninâ states that he fetched wood from the mountains, but unlike Gudea in a later age, he is not recorded to have brought in his craftsmen from abroad.
The country needs craftsmen of this type and for them there is an important work.
The Van Claes were formerly one of the great families of craftsmen to whom, in various lines of production, the Netherlands owed a commercial supremacy which it has never lost.
The whole spirit of ancient Flanders breathed in that mansion, which afforded to the lovers of burgher antiquities a type of the modest houses which the wealthy craftsmen of the Middle Ages constructed for their homes.
The landowners and wealthier craftsmen were startled and terrified by "what seemed in their age the extravagant demands of the new labor classes.
The landowners in the country and the craftsmen in the town found plenty of help, and the new class then coming upon the stage could go where it was needed.
Brentano, in his work on Trades Unions, says: "They have fought contests quite as fierce as those of the old craftsmen against the patricians, if not fiercer.
The landowners and craftsmen could appeal effectively to the crown and Parliament through their wealth, their political power, and the craftsmen, especially, through their organizations.
It is quite certain that the artistic sense is superlatively ancient, and it is quite unproven that the lives of these early craftsmen were protracted nightmares.
The horses of Philippus are comparatively stiff and wooden by the side of the work of Celtic craftsmen who, when that was their intention, animated their creations with amazing verve and elan.
The supposed modifications attributed to the laziness or incompetence of British craftsmen are, however, so astonishing and so ably executed that I am convinced the present theory of feeble imitation is ill-founded.
Therefore, from 1505 on, they had to pay a tax instead of working for the government, and from then on the craftsmen became relatively free.
Yet, in an empire as large as that of the Ming, this system did not work too well: craftsmen lost too much time in travelling and often succeeded in running away while travelling.
We know only few names of the artists and craftsmen who made these objects.
His ideal of social organization resembles organizations of merchants and craftsmen which we know only of later periods.
Most craftsmen in this epoch still had their shops in one lane or street and lived above their shops, as they had done in the earlier period.
By this method new cities were provided with urban, refined people and, most important, with skilled craftsmen and businessmen who assisted in building the cities and in keeping them alive.
From the early sixteenth century on, craftsmen were free and no more subject to forced labour services for the state.
Families of artisans and craftsmen also were hereditary servants of noble families--a type of social organization which has its parallels in ancient Japan and in later India and other parts of the world.
These upper-class families supplied to the capital a class of consumers of luxury goods which attractedcraftsmen and businessmen and changed the character of the capital from that of a provincial town to a centre of arts and crafts.
The restrictions which, for instance, had made the craftsmen and artisans almost into serfs, were gradually lifted.
For the craftsmen and artisans, much material has recently been collected by Chinese scholars.
Not only peasants and craftsmen came to the north but more and more educated persons.
Doctors as craftsmen were under corvée obligation and could easily be ordered by the state.
The band of figures was designed by Olivier Merson, the painter, and carved by a metal carver and enamelled by an enameller, both ablecraftsmen employed by M.
Under the Norman kings of Sicily the style was strongly oriental, consequent upon the earlier occupation of the island by the Saracens, and upon the employment of Saracenic craftsmen by the Normans.
Yet it was from these very folk that were produced craftsmen of a really able type.
The craftsmen worked alone in their own homes or with the help of their wives and children.
If the master craftsmen had other helpers these were usually lodged and fed in the homes, and were taught by the side of the masters' own families.
In many ways also in the towns, close organizations of craftsmen and of merchants regulated prices and kept others out of their industries.
Hence a swarm of bold craftsmen and mannerists was let loose upon the public, who with gay mediocrity overwhelmed what yet was left of principles in art.
Mediocrity, tinsel ostentation, and tasteless diligence mark the greater number of that society of craftsmen whom Sixtus IV.
With the white stone, which they found in their own land, they built magnificent cathedrals, abbeys and churches, for they were cunning craftsmen and dreamers.
The merchants began to use more of their own good wool and many skilled craftsmen were needed for cloth making.
All dyeing as done by craftsmen and in the schools involves design.
Give us more artists and craftsmen and we will have a real theater; give us local artists and craftsmen and we will have a Community Theater.
They were often the work of the craftsmen of Mesopotamia, who were clever artists in metal, and the work they performed came to Europe through Syria.
In making these continental craftsmenseem to have excelled.
Some of the designs favoured by Spanish craftsmen were gruesome in the extreme.
Curiously enough, American craftsmen copied them and maintained the purity of the old English style long after the makers of English dower chests had been influenced by Dutch and French design and inlay.
But for all this, these poor 'gentilshommes de verre' never obtained that complete recognition in France that had always been granted to their brother craftsmen at Venice and L'Altare, and their claims at times exposed them to ridicule.
We hear especially of two craftsmen from Milan, Girolamo and Caspare Miseroni, who worked for that prince.
We must not, however, as has sometimes been done, look upon the craftsmen from the latter town as incapable of producing anything of artistic merit.
It should be borne in mind that these Semitic craftsmen would for the most part speak Greek rather than Latin, an important point that I have not space to develop here.
It was in this same hall probably that the unhappy craftsmen of Edward VI.
On this occasion a whole army of craftsmen was transferred, it is said, from Damascus to Timur's new capital at Samarkand.
He was the greatest of the craftsmen during the height of the Renaissance period.
His claims to be the king of craftsmen were admitted by his fellow-artificers, and at the zenith of his career he had no rivals.
The craftsmen and artisans of the city bought many rights from time to time from the bishops, and finally wrested the power from out of the hands of the Church, much as did the burghers of other cities from their feudal lords.
The Popes themselves gave a very material aid when they sent or allowed colonies of southern craftsmen to undertake the work on these great religious edifices of the Rhine valley.
Not alone did Italy aid Germany in the erection of ecclesiastical monuments, but France as well, with the Norman variation of the Romanesque and the later developed Gothic, sent many monkish craftsmen to lend their aid and skill.
We have seen thecraftsmen at work, and the fountain of their inspiration is not far to seek when we are told that the stories of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata are told nightly all over India to listening millions.
But the work which the early craftsmen in wood, stone, brass, and iron, contrived to execute, sufficed to show how much expertness in the handling of tools will serve to compensate for their mechanical imperfections.
At a later period, when Jerusalem was taken by the Babylonians, one of their first acts was to carry the smiths and other craftsmen captives to Babylon.
Correspondence passed between her and Sir John Thynne on the subject of the craftsmenemployed by both, and there seems no doubt that Longleat and Hardwick were the work of the same men.
Paris has endured a regular invasion of German craftsmen from the middle of the eighteenth century, and the Faubourg S.
Orvieto was another place where tarsia work was made at an early date, but the craftsmen were all Sienese.
Two other names are mentioned as capable craftsmen in Nuremberg, Wolf Weiskopf and Sebald Beck; the latter died in 1546.
When he lately returned to Italy, he was often greeted as a second Apelles, by the craftsmen both of Venice and Bologna (I acting as their interpreter).
In all such periods, the more accomplished craftsmen have never wearied of technical experiment to the constant enrichment of the processes of their art.
But the craftsmen themselves know better; they know that no one may surely separate manner and matter, form and content, Siamese twins often, coming into being at a single birth.
First of all, there is the technic of the author, his craftsmanship, his mastery of the tools of his trade; and by almost universal consent Maupassant is held to be one of the mastercraftsmen of the short-story.
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