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Increased social awareness about their culture and politics in this social mileu. It's an intimate social setting depending on the city life, state depending on the religious and civic spaces where much of life as a citizen of Florence is played and reliant upon a philosophy of recalling ancient Greek and Roman standards of life and culture. Civic duty and civic pride.

But these authors and these works are only one measure of renaissance humanism. Another measure is art and architecture.

The rise of the Medici family in Florence brought changes to art and architecture in Florence. It's a very dynamic culture.

Gothic churches. Space is a key concept, a physical depth that represents the great constitution that these buildings house. So it's not a select membership that can enter these churches, it's for everyone. This depth in architecture runs concurrent with themes in painting, perspective, depth.

(Massacio, The Holy Trinity, c.1425)


Giotto, Kiss of Judas, c1305

Artists were not necessarily tied down to their cities - they were willing to travel for wealthy patrons.