Just a clarification, art has never been overvalued historically. In point of fact, artisans and musicians were considered a fairly lower class as a mere trade

Just a clarification, art has never been overvalued historically. In point of fact, artisans and musicians were considered a fairly lower class as a mere trade within the medieval time period outside of a few rockstars such as Beethoven and Liszt (later in the 18th and 19th centuries).