7 sentences with “craftsmen”

In the bohemian neighborhood, we find many workshops of artists and craftsmen.

Even in a settlement as old as Çatal Höyük, there were craftsmen, builders, and perhaps most interestingly, priests.

The wives of craftsmen were often themselves craftswomen, but their work was simply considered part of their husbands' production.

Bronze had already been in use for over a thousand years when it became common in Egypt, but when it finally arrived with the Canaanite craftsmen it radically altered the balance of power.

Canaan's merchants traded throughout the Middle East, its craftsmen were renowned for their work, and it was even a group of Canaanites - the Hyksos - who briefly ruled Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period.

Skilled craftsmen produced high quality goods for sale in an empire-wide market, and better-off citizens had access to quality tools, crockery, bedding, etc., many of which had been manufactured hundreds of miles away.

In the end, a biography of Michelangelo written by a friend helped to cement the idea that there was an important distinction between mere craftsmen and true artists, the latter temperamental and mercurial but possessed of genius. Thus the whole idea of the artist as an ingenious social outsider derives in part from Michelangelo's life.