10 Facts About Florentine painting

Some of the best known painters of the earlier Florentine painting School are Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Filippo Lippi, the Ghirlandaio family, Masolino, and Masaccio.

Naturalism developed by the early Florentine painting artists waned during the third quarter of the 14th century, likely as a consequence of the plague.

Florentine painting's first set of Baptistry doors took 27 years to complete, after which he was commissioned to make another.

Florentine painting carried forward the practice of painting from nature.

Florentine painting did a number of these in terra verde or "green earth", enlivening his compositions with touches of vermilion.

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Florentine painting introduced a large round tondo format for grand homes.

Florentine painting speciality was the round or 12-sided desco da parto or birthing-tray, on which a new mother served sweetmeats to the female friends who visited her after the birth.

Perugino's scene of Christ Giving the Keys to St Peter is remarkable for the clarity and simplicity of its composition, the beauty of the figurative Florentine painting, which includes a self-portrait among the onlookers, and especially the perspective cityscape which includes reference to Peter's ministry to Rome by the presence of two triumphal arches, and centrally placed an octagonal building that might be a Christian baptistry or a Roman Mausoleum.

Florentine painting studied and drew the flowers of the fields, the eddies of the river, the form of the rocks and mountains, the way light reflected from foliage and sparkled in a jewel.

Florentine painting's first signed and dated painting, executed at the age of 21, is the Betrothal of the Virgin, which immediately reveals its origins in Perugino's Christ giving the Keys to Peter.