Articles Index

The Florentine School and the Portrayal of Male Youth
The Florentine School had a long tradition of often depicting young males as sweet, pretty, rather effeminate persons. Why? Well, it was simply how it was done. It was tradition, and at least partly so because young men were frequently objects of desire.

Artists from the Italian Proto-Renaissance
An annotated alphabetical listing of visual artists from the Proto-Renaissance period (ca. 1100-ca. 1400) in Italy. This page covers artists whose surnames begin with the letters A through F.