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The Nativity Print by Lorenzo Monaco

The Nativity

Bust of Saint Mary Print by Lorenzo Monaco

Bust of Saint Mary

Saint Jerome in his Study Print by Lorenzo Monaco

Saint Jerome in his Study

Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata Print by Lorenzo Monaco

Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata

Nativity Print by Lorenzo Monaco

Nativity

David Print by Lorenzo Monaco

David

The Coronation of the Virgin Print by Lorenzo Monaco

The Coronation of the Virgin

Adoring Saints. Left Main Tier Panel Print by Lorenzo Monaco

Adoring Saints. Left Main Tier Panel

Incidents in the Life of Saint Benedict Print by Lorenzo Monaco

Incidents in the Life of Saint Benedict

Moses. Detail Print by Lorenzo Monaco

Moses. Detail

Adoring Saints. Right Main Tier Panel Print by Lorenzo Monaco

Adoring Saints. Right Main Tier Panel

Abraham Print by Lorenzo Monaco

Abraham

Noah Print by Lorenzo Monaco

Noah

The Magus Hermogenes casting his Magic Books into the Water Print by Lorenzo Monaco

The Magus Hermogenes casting his Magic Books into the Water

The Intercession of Christ and the Virgin Print by Attributed to Lorenzo Monaco

Saint Benedict admitting Saints into the Order

Saint Benedict admitting Saints into the Order Print by Lorenzo Monaco

The Intercession of Christ and the Virgin

Lorenzo Monaco

Adoring Saints - Right Main Tier PanelIncidents in the Life of Saint Benedict

Lorenzo Monaco

Saint Benedict admitting Saints into the Order

Lorenzo Monaco

The Baptism of Christ

Lorenzo Monaco

The Coronation of the Virgin

Lorenzo Monaco

Adoration of the Magi

Lorenzo Monaco

Adoration of the Magi

Lorenzo Monaco

Christ on the Mount of Olives and the Marys at the Tomb

Lorenzo Monaco

Flight to Egypt

Lorenzo Monaco

Marriage of the Virgin, detail

Lorenzo Monaco

St. Jerome

Lorenzo Monaco

St. Nicholas rescues the shipwrecked

Lorenzo Monaco

Madonna, Detail

Lorenzo Monaco

Mary with the child

Lorenzo Monaco

Scene from the Life of St Benedict

Lorenzo Monaco

Scene from the Life of St Benedict

Lorenzo Monaco

Scene from the Life of St Benedict

Lorenzo Monaco

Monte Oliveto Altarpiece: Madonna

Lorenzo Monaco

Pieta

Lorenzo Monaco

Enthroned Madonna

Lorenzo Monaco

Annunciation

Workshop of Lorenzo Monaco

Saint Benedict in the Sacro Speco at Subiaco Print by Workshop of Lorenzo Monaco

Saint Benedict in the Sacro Speco at Subiaco

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The Nativity Print by Lorenzo Monaco

The Nativity

Lorenzo Monaco (born Piero di Giovanni; c. 1370 – c. 1425) was an Italian painter of the late Gothic-early Renaissance age. He was born Piero di Giovanni in Siena. Little is known about his youth, apart from the fact that he was apprenticed in Florence. He was influenced by Giotto and his followers Spinello Aretino and Agnolo Gaddi.

In 1390 he joined the Camaldolese monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli. He was thenceforth generally known as Lorenzo Monaco (English: "Lawrence the Monk"). In the 1390s he executed three panels of the Biblioteca Laurenziana for his convent.

Starting from around 1404 his works show the influence of the International Gothic, of Lorenzo Ghiberti's earliest works and of Gherardo Starnina. From this period is the Pietà in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Florence. His works, often over a gilted background, showed in general a spiritual value, and usually did not feature profane elements.

In 1414 he painted the Coronation of the Virgin (now at the Uffizi), characterized by a great number of saints and brilliant colors. In the late part of his life, Lorenzo did not accept the early Renaissance innovations introduced by artists such as Masaccio and Brunelleschi. This is visible in the Adoration of the Magi of 1420–1422, where the now widespread geometrical perspective is totally absent. Lorenzo's works remained popular in the 1420s, as testified by the numerous commissions he received, such as the Stories of the Virgin in the Bartolini Salimbeni Chapel of Santa Trinita, one of his few frescoes.

Giorgio Vasari includes a biography of Lorenzo Monaco in his Lives. According to the Florentine historian, he died from a not well identified infection, perhaps a gangrene or a tumour.

Works

His works include:

Madonna and Child with Saints (1395–1402)
Incidents in the Life of Saint Benedict (c. 1407–1409)
Nativity (1409), a panel believed to form part of a predella
Coronation of the Virgin (1414), also for Santa Maria degli Angeli
Annunciation Triptych (1410–1415), Gallerie dell'Accademia, Florence
Bartolini Salimbeni Chapel (1410–1415), Santa Trinita, Florence
Adoration of the Magi (1422)
Beheading of Saint Paul, Princeton University Art Museum
"Processional Cross", Chicago Art Institute
"Crucifixion of Saint Peter" Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
"Madonna and Child"National Gallery, Washington, D.C.

See also

Sienese school

Further Reading

Pope-Hennessy, John & Kanter, Laurence B. (1987). The Robert Lehman Collection I, Italian Paintings. New York, Princeton: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Princeton University Press. ISBN 0870994794. (see index; plates 71-72)

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