Before Ficino

The painters who came just before the Neoplatonic turn — what Florence looked like when Ficino was born. Masaccio invented perspective. Uccello was obsessed with geometry. Gentile da Fabriano brought International Gothic splendor. Andrea del Castagno painted warriors and scholars with a new, fierce naturalism.

These artists created the visual language that Botticelli and his generation would transform with Ficino's philosophy.