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Excerpt from The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. 6
Design, schools of. In ancient times every master of an art or artistic industry was accus temed to impart the secrets of his craft to a number of pupils, who in return gave him such help as they could, working upon his master pieces and learning by practice, under his super vision, his particular methods as well as the established traditions of the craft. In the Mid (lle Ages this system of teaching by apprentice ship was highly developed by the guilds, which controlled all the arts and trades, particularly in Florence and North Italy, in Germany, and Flanders, and to a considerable extent also in France and England. The governing councils of these guilds regulated the terms of apprentice ship and the course of instruction, prescribed the tests for promotion from one grade to another, and instituted prize competitions to stimulate proficiency. It was under this system that Florence attained that extraordinary primacy in the arts of design in the thirteenth century which she held until the close of the fourteenth.
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