While Michaelagelo is credited with genius, we should also remember it was commercial "work for hire" for Lorenzo Medici and his family. A family that bought and bribed its way into the church and had Lorenzo's son Giovanni, a non- priest made pope -(Leo X). Michaelangelo's works were often decorations for Medici crypts or chapels and Not for the pure love of the human spirit and expression. Earlier works of the ancient world, "Winged Victory", "the Belvedere" and "Venus de Milo" were "public works" for the decoration of temples. Hokusai and Hiroshige did Ukito-e for commercial block prints and pillow books. Toulouse-Lautrec's most famous works were posters for the Moulin Rouge and Follies Bergere. It has been less than a century that the phenominon known as "art for arts sake" has existed, before that art was part of society and art was commercial, whether commissions from patrons, the church or commerce. There was no distinction of illustrator and artist, only artist. Prints were invented so that printers had something to sell to the poor who could not commission a painting. Shows, follies and circuses gave birth to the art nouveau movement. Mucha's great prints were for the sale of coffee, spirits and cigarette papers. Diego Rivera decorated schools and government buildings, William Morris designed book covers, Frank Lloyd Wright sold houses. The Arts and Craft Movement of the 1890's and then 70 years later, Warhol (and he was saying it tongue in cheek) came out with the statement that everything is art, that everything is an icon and beauty and inspiration happens to each of us in different ways. There is no such thing as sacred versus secular art, no true art versus illustration, no inspirational versus sensuality - it is all art. A delicately designed font used to sell soap is as much art as "La Pieta", only our perception is different.