Italian Workshop: A Fragment of Fifteenth Century Florentine Art The Italian Workshop, a collective artistic endeavor operating in Florence during the mid-15th century, remains an enigmatic figure within Renaissance art history. Precise biographical details are scarce – its origins lie shrouded in the traditions of *bottega*, or artisan workshops prevalent at the time, where masters oversaw apprenticeships and fostered innovation alongside established stylistic conventions. While no individual name has surfaced to definitively identify the workshop’s leader, scholars believe it was associate…