<u>This is not the full question, the answering options are missing. They are as following</u>
<u>business partnership. </u>
<u>orsanmichele.</u>
<u>guild. </u>
<u>local church.</u>
<u>The correct answer is a guild.</u>
Crafts and professions had been controlled by the guilds in the biggest part of Europe during the Renaissance. As art was considered to be a craft at the time, it was also included.
<u>One could not participate in it without the guild membership. Getting involved in the guild meant getting proper training and having access to commissions, but also settled the length of the contracts and how many students a master could train. </u>Guild rules allowed masters to sign as their own any art that left their workshop.
<u>At the end of the training, the student had to show the guild piece of artwork which would prove that he indeed mastered the art.</u> This is how the usage of the term masterpiece has started.
