A Late Gothic Echo in Renaissance Color In the shifting artistic tides of fifteenth-century Italy, few figures capture the delicate transition from the medieval to the modern as poignantly as Francesco d’Antonio da Viterbo. Known to his contemporaries by the evocative moniker il Balletta, this master of the late-Gothic and early-Renaissance styles breathed life into the churches of Viterbo with a hand that balanced solemn tradition ag…