Italian fourteenth century artists demonstrate their change in status bybeing included among the practitioners of the liberal arts, that was considered a higher level than the mechanical arts, their efforts paid off, and some of the great masters, such as Titian and Michelangelo, by the force of their genius and personality, were able to achieve a measure of status and respect that their predecessors rarely enjoyed, they were inspired by the ideas and forms of ancient Greece and Rome and put it together with their desire to create a universal art form that could express the new and more secure mood of the times.
