ABSTRACT
Following Masaccio’s death, a new generation of
painters in Florence, a city where the arts were enthu-
siastically supported by those in power, would build
on his pictorial innovations. At the same time, however,
International Gothic taste appealed to patrons who
wanted to display their wealth through rich materials
and pageantry. The humanists preferred monumental
naturalism and the inspiration of antiquity. Religious
Orders as well as pious individuals tended to commis-
sion more spiritual, even mystical, works. And affairs of
state continued to inspire civic iconography.
