Paolo Ucello paints frescoes of The Flood…

1450 CE

Paolo Ucello paints frescoes of The Flood in the Green Cloister of Santa Maria Novella in the late 1440s manipulating the effects of perspective to the extreme.

Cosimo de'Medici’s sponsorship of the Platonic Academy in Florence, founded after Gemistus Pletho had reintroduced Plato's thoughts to Western Europe during the 1438 - 1439 Council of Florence, marks a shift in humanist values from political and social concerns to speculation about the nature of humankind and the cosmos.

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