Florentine Paintings Of Florence, Italy: Athens, Greece

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Florence, Italy is the equivalent to art as Athens, Greece is to classical period pieces. Perfect ideals of humanistic beauty emerged from these two areas: Florence in the depictions of God, His Divine Son, Blessed Virgin, and saints and Athens in its portrayals of the Gods of Olympus, demi-Gods, and heroes. Florentine painters, such as Giotto, rarely painted an entire piece by themselves. They would often paint the main effigies of the depictions and the heads of the figures because most of the time they simply monitored the work in progress. Florentine painters did not have exhibitions, art shows, and so on; they painted what was ordered. If a person could afford a painting, they would visit the painter’s shop, or “bottega,” they would
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