Plato adapted the term, which in ancient Greece had originally been the ordinary word for "craftsman," or "artisan" (broadly interpreted to include not only manual workers but also heralds, soothsayers, and physicians), and which in the 5th century bc had come to designate certain magistrates or elected officials.
Mura Masa has a world of instruments and sounds to draw on, and a confident craftsman's sense of what to include and what to leave out.
Skalnik has emphasized the significance of Ramus' dream of widening the scope of education to include even instruction of future craftsmen.
"The Craftsman" also called for the definition of craftsmanship to be broadened to include software design and computer programming as part of an intellectual reassessment of craft.
The Duke employed craftsmen to service a wide range of industries including boat-making, plastering, blacksmithing and mining.
And what had he inspired his master craftsmen to create?
Francis I of France invited famed French and Italian craftsmen and artists, including Leonardo da Vinci, to rebuild and embellish his château at Fontainebleau, and there he kept his outstanding collection of art.
In the same period, Saxon craftsmen, including Neuber — goldsmith to the court of Frederick Augustus III, Elector of Saxony — were working with locally found stones like amethyst, jasper and agate.
There were city leaders, officials, writers, merchants, traders, artists, craftsmen that included potters and bronze workers, soldiers, sailors, farmers and shepherds.
Most settled in villages, working as craftsmen and adhering to strict religious rituals that include, to this day, the reading of the Bible in Aramaic.
