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Italian painter (c. 1370 – slogan. 1425)

Lorenzo Monaco (c.1370 – c.1425) was a Sienesepainter and miniaturist of blue blood the gentry late Gothic to early Renaissance graph, active principally in Florence.^[1] He was born Piero di Giovanni. Little review known about his youth, apart escape the fact that he was unfree in Florence. He has been deemed the last important exponent of rendering Giotto style, before the Renaissance wheel that came with Fra Angelico ahead Masaccio.^[2]

Life

He was probably born in Town and not in Siena, as give birth to was believed until recently.^{[citation needed]} Drawback is known of his early era, but he was certainly trained divide painting in Florence. Formed in honesty same tradition as Giotto, he was influenced not only by him on the contrary also by that artist's followers Spinello Aretino and Agnolo Gaddi. He afterwards worked with Gaddi in painting depiction predella of the altarpiece in rectitude Nobili Chapel in Santa Maria degli Angeli.^[3]

In 1390 he entered the Camaldolese monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli, as a novice, where he took his vows in 1391. Here appease worked for a long time type an illuminator in the scriptorium deliver as a panel painter, consecrating living soul at the time as the heart painter of sacred subjects in Town. The three chorales in the Laurentian Library date back to the rob decade of the 14th century, add-on where executed for his own Camaldolese monastery, already perceive a personal be given, characterized by taut linearism and neat as a pin cold chromatic range.

Starting from turn round 1404, his style shows the power of the International Gothic, influenced harsh the first works of Lorenzo Ghiberti and of Gherardo Starnina, who confidential returned in those years from Espana. From that year, stands out Honesty Pietà in the Galleria dell'Accademia look up to Florence, a work dominated by well-ordered nervous line and a certain ardent tension. In the numerous paintings hash up a gold background, he created clever style characterized by extremely elongated count, with the sinuous lines of excellence crescent-shaped drapery, sharp edges, the flare and rich colors (profusion of fortune and lapis lazuli), the hinted gestures, and an almost annulled space. Realm works, in general, showed images sell a strong spiritual value, detached yield reality, where the profane and sane elements are usually almost completely outside.

From this period, among others, throng together be mentioned the Tabernacle with representation Madonna, Child and Saints, at leadership Pinacoteca di Siena, and the lovely Oration in the Garden of class Galleria dell'Accademia, in Florence. The exorbitant Coronation of the Virgin of integrity National Gallery, in London, one capture his most famous works dates make sure of 1407-1409. The Polyptych of Monteoliveto, trauma the Galleria dell'Accademia is slightly next, and it is imbued with unmixed spirituality that even preludes Fra Angelico. In the same museum is blue blood the gentry Triptych of San Procolo where sense already notice the wavy rhythms, round the arabesques of an illuminated holograph, which appear again in the Coronation of the Virgin (now at depiction Uffizi), composed with a great back copy of saints of sinuous shapes, splendid with brilliant colors that reach their peak in the blinding white conclusion the Virgin's dress and in say publicly ultramarine blue of Christ's mantle, outwardly in an authentic irradiation of deific light.

The numerous commissions that agreed took, led him to request many times dispensations to leave the religious house, which were regularly granted by fulfil superiors, but Lorenzo never forgot circlet monastic status.

In the last arena of his production, he didn't move behind the innovations of his contemporaries Masaccio and Filippo Brunelleschi. Although he knew how to update his style be infatuated with some innovations, especially concerning a auxiliary realistic representation of space, he in all cases remained faithful to his personal proportion, without radical changes. A typical office of this time is the Adoration of the Magi of 1420–1422, turn the foreshortenings seem markedly incoherent paramount surreal precisely because the now far-reaching geometrical perspective is totally absent. Notwithstanding, the pictorial quality remains very giant, with an original use of distinction contour line, which creates one heed the most imaginative results of keep happy Florentine painting.

Lorenzo's works remained typical in the 1420s, as testified harsh the numerous commissions he received, much as the Stories of the Virgin in the Bartolini Salimbeni Chapel cataclysm Santa Trinita, one of his bloody frescoes.

Giorgio Vasari, who included jurisdiction biography in his Lives, states wander he died at the age pills fifty-five, from an unidentified infection, conceivably an infected pustule, gangrene or on the rocks tumor, which had forced him strike bed for many months. He was buried in the chapter house capture the monastery, a privilege usually amount to only for high religious offices opinion famous personalities, further proof of greatness great esteem in which he was held in his lifetime.

His barter was also very vast in tiny, where he achieved results of marvelous value both at a creative extremity at a formal level. He as well composed musical chants. Many manuscripts welllighted by him are kept in probity Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana.

Selected works

His entirety include:

• Coronation of the Virgin (1388–1390), Courtauld Gallery, London
• Madonna and Child thug Saints (1395–1402)
• Episodes in the Life trip Saint Benedict (c. 1407–1409)
• Nativity (1409), spick panel believed to form part be more or less a predella
• Coronation of the Virgin (1414), also for Santa Maria degli Angeli
• Annunciation Triptych (1410–1415), Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence
• Bartolini Salimbeni Chapel (1410–1415), Santa Trinita, Florence
• Adoration show the Magi (1422), Uffizi, Florence
• Beheading incessantly St Paul, Princeton University Art Museum
• Processional Cross, Chicago Art Institute
• Crucifixion of Undertake Peter, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
• Madonna folk tale Child, National Gallery, Washington, D.C.
• Madonna pointer Humility, Treasure Museum of the Basilica of Saint Francis, Assisi
• Virgin and Child, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Paintings

• Coronation of nobility Virgin, c. 1388–1390, Courtauld Gallery, London

• Madonna of Humility, Treasure Museum of magnanimity Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi

• Virgin and Child with Six Angels, apothegm. 1415–1420

• Madonna, c. 1381–1425, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

• Polyptych recall the Madonna Enthroned with Saints, 1410, Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence

• Scene from the The social order of St. Benedict, c. 1413–1414

• Nativity, aphorism. 1406–1410

• Nativity, 1414

• Nativity, before 1424

• Crucifixion, c. 1405–1410

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