THE EARLY RENAISSANCE, 15th CENTURY Florence in the age of Humanism
Competition for the Baptistery doors (1401)
Italian artists: Brunelleschi; Ghiberti; Pisanello; Masaccio; Donatello;
Rossellino; Gentile da Fabriano; Alberti; Uccello; Castagno;
Verrocchio; Fra Angelico; Piero della Francesca; Mantegna; Fra
Filippo Lippi; Botticelli; Ghirlandaio
Leonardo Bruni's humanist tomb
Patronage: Isabella d'Este
Art theory: Alberti, On Painting (c. 1435)
History: Bruni, Praise of the City of Florence and History of the Florentine People
The condottiere and fame; the Platonic Academy
Northern painters: Campin; van Eyck; van der Weyden; Memling; van der Goes