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‘In part because of the interest in proportion, architecture during the Renaissance was raised to the level of a liberal (or fine) art. During the Middle Ages it was considered simply a mechanical art, and architects were basically craftsmen,* their anonymity only occasionally dispelled by the fortunate preservation of building accounts.

‘In the Renaissance the varying systems of proportion were dependent on a knowledge of geometry; architecture became materialisation in space of the principles of geometry and thereby an equal of geometry, which had been a liberal art during the Middle Ages.’

‘Renaissance architecture was produced no longer by craftsmen but by educated men. In Italy during the 15^th and 16^th centuries, the architect gradually acquired social standing through his knowledge and education, which were concerned with the theory and principles of design more than with the craft of building.’**

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*** – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 13:996] - 997

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