Conhistory/Cultures/Art

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You can't become a great artist if you have to work all day. Thus, art in earlier periods reflects the interest of the upper classes. A secular monarch may pay portraits and stories about great wars or the life of his family, priests may pay for religious art, which might be restricted in form (e.g. no pictures of god).