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A Basic History of Western Art

...... Both Rome and Florence were big merchant cities, where interest for science and intellectual activities were taking over. The medieval conception that the artists was merely a worker was beginning to fade away as the artists became more intellectual, respected, and became closely acquainted with the most important scholars of their time. However in Venice, the conception was different, since that was a smaller city, less affected by the speed of modern world and more sensitive to preoccupations such as landscape, colors and beauty of nature. Venetian perception of esthetics was more inclined towards landscape that human figure. In Venetian works the representation of the landscape or background have higher importance than the characters involved. Venetian art was more linked to the Northern, Germanic and Netherlands school, than to what was happening in Rome
Northern painting developed differently than Italian art during the 15th century period. In the northern school the preoccupation for landscape and nature were the main subject, while in Italy mythology, man and greatness were the main subject. In those countries the Protestant Reform brought a rupture between the church and the world of art, religious subjects losing interest. While in Italy there was great preoccupation