Early Renaissance patrons of the arts, such as the Medicis of Florence, commissioned artwork as a way to gain favor in heaven and power on earth, and so were often religious in nature even though they were not directly commissioned by the church. At this time, Michelozzo di Bartolommeo, an architect and sculptor favored by the wealthy and powerful Medicis, along with others, worked on the reconstruction and/or design of the monastery at San Marco at Florence, Santissima Annunziata, the Cathedral of Florence, and the Florentine palazzo, among other works (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica, 2008). During this period, humanism was starting to flourish, and artists applied mathematical and scientific techniques in their work, such as “Vitruvian