Why did the renaissance start in Florence? Florentine art and history at the time of Fra Angelico, Uccello, Botticelli and others.

What was it about 15th century Florence that provided the ingredients for an apparent explosion of art and culture?

This one-day course looks at the city and its place in contemporary history and politics to uncover the reason for the sudden flowering of the arts.

There will, of course, be plenty of pictures as we look at the careers of some of the famous names of the time including Fra Angelico, Fra Fillipo Lippi, Uccello, Botticelli, and the Medici family, and set them into their context