Beautiful works of art were also valued thousands of years ago - a person’s craving for beauty is embedded somewhere very deep in the unconscious. The very first artistic creations are wall paintings and ocher caves by ocher, images of animals and people that are tens of thousands of years old. According to scientists, one of the main differences of a Cro-Magnon from a Neanderthal preceding him is the ability to work. Even in the Stone Age, people began to draw, create jewelry and self-actualize in creativity in other ways. In the future, these techniques and technologies only became more complicated.

In the Middle Ages, a number of areas of art reached amazing perfection. Artists created striking images on their canvases, and glassblowers created utensils that were a pity even to use. All this is worth telling in more detail.

Venetian glass

The technologies used by medieval glassblowers were invented by the ancient Romans around 50 BC. And the Venetian masters brought them to perfection, blowing molten glass mass through metal tubes, creating amazing multi-colored creations.

It could be vases, various figures, and much more. Venetian craftsmen made a huge variety of different objects, from window glasses to lenses for glasses. It is believed that the first glasses for people with low vision were invented here.. Simple pieces of multi-colored glass were also created - also a commodity that was very popular in medieval times. It was bought by artists who were engaged in the creation of colored mosaics and stained glass.

In the 8th century AD, Venetian glass became known in many countries, and the local glass industry reached its peak level. Only by the 17th century did this trend begin to decline. But even today, many masters adhere to ancient technologies and work exclusively by hand, creating real masterpieces.

Why did artists buy eggs?

Medieval artists and craftsmen did everything manually, they themselves created paints and all the materials necessary for the work. If the artist could buy the right glass for the mosaic - this was already a great success. But paints for writing paintings or painting walls, painting on plaster had to be done independently. The artist’s workshop could resemble an alchemical laboratory - the craftsmen bought the most unusual products in order to extract paint from them.

Although other acquisitions were quite commonplace. So, to create tempera paints, eggs were bought in bulk, since dry dye had to be mixed with yolk and water. To create other paints, one had to purchase expensive products - exotic mollusks, and much more. Significant costs fell on the shoulders of the artists. No wonder they were poor.

Thus, the greatest works of artists and masters of the Middle Ages, extant and not extant, were given a high price. Today, everyone can go to a creative store to buy any paints, or even glass, intended for melting. And in the past, all the training fell on the shoulders of the masters, who were supposed to create their masterpieces in the simplest conditions, due to hours of manual labor.