Baldassare degli Embriachi: Florentine Renaissance Master of Marriage Caskets and Altarpieces Baldassare degli Embriachi (c. 1390 – after 1433) remains an enigmatic figure in the history of Florentine art, largely obscured by the prolific output of his workshop and the difficulty of definitively attributing works to him alone. Despite this lack of biographical detail, scholars recognize Embriachi as a pivotal innovator within the burgeoning marriage casket tradition—a genre that captured the spirit of courtship and solidified Venetian artistic prestige—and as a contributor to monumental alta…