Daedalus

Artful builder is the Greek translation of "daedalus," the name of the father of Icarus and the craftsman alleged to have built the vast labyrinth of ancient Crete.

Crete was a civilization that existed prior to early Greek civilization at Mycenaean, or later classical civilization in Athens and Sparta.

In this depiction by William Blake of the underlying urge of the world to become creatively and practical organized by the hands of an intervening agent or creator, the Greek idea that the world is a created or made place by the hand of a superior intelligence. The compass shown in the diagram is an instrument used by all early stone cutters and masons to inscribe rocks before they were cut and assembled into a structure.

Daedalus was said to have mastered the tools, the techniques and the understanding of how material objects fit together in a way that promoted practical ends in an effective and beautiful way. He thus represented the ancient ideal of an artistically capable craftsman who produced a wedding of use and beautiful things. That I deal was revived in the Spanish and Italian Renaissance as a cornerstone in early modern thought.