Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. People (hierarchy name)
4. people (agents)
5. [people by occupation]
6. [people in the humanities]
7. [people in the arts and related occupations]
8. [people in the arts]
9. [people in the visual arts and related occupations]
10. [people in the visual arts]
11. artists (visual artists)
12. [artists by status or location]

Anotations

Scope note:

Designation used for painters in 14th- through 18th-century northern and southern Europe who specialized in decorative work or minor works rather than painting the main subjects of primary paintings. It was defined within the painters' guild of St. Luke; it also included house painters and varnishers. Coarse painters were considered of lower status than "artist painters."