The Art Boom in the Renaissance

Architecture is no longer anything but an art like any other. Stained glass doesn't hold the same value in terms of communicating ideas that it probably did to the people who were there when the stained glass was first made. The arts emancipate themselves break the yoke of the architect and take themselves off each one in its own direction so they gain by this divorce isolation aggrandizes everything sculpture becomes statuary, image trade becomes painting and canon becomes music.