Episode 37 - Renaissance Sculpture's False Start

The Sculptor's Funeral Podcast Returns for the Second Season! Episode 37 - Renaissance Sculpture's False Start: Ask an art historian for the date of sculpture's official kick-off in the Florentine Renaissance, they might tell you 1401. Or, they might tell you 1260. Both answers are correct. How can this be? It turns out that early advances in sculptural traditions away from the Gothic idiom had a good early start - which was then abruptly killed off, by a destructive force you'd want to avoid like the Plague...