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| Lorenzo Monaco (c. 1372–c. 1424) | ||||||||||
| Born Piero di Giovanni in Siena, Lorenzo was the last representative of late Gothic painting in Italy. From 1390, he was a Camaldolese monk at the Santa Maria degli Angeli convent in Florence, where he took the name Lorenzo and became known as 'Lorenzo Monaco.' Likely trained by Agnolo Gaddi, he was also influenced by Giotto, Spinello Aretino, and Fra Angelico. A leading painter in Florence, he worked on frescoes, manuscripts, and panel paintings. His style is soft and transparent, with flesh tones that are delicately blended, and his figures, though expressive of religious sentiment, feel somewhat distant. His best works as a miniaturist are in his smaller pieces. The only painting bearing Lorenzo's name is the Coronation of the Virgin, dated 1413, originally in the abbey of his order at Ceretto, now in the Uffizi, Florence. He died in Florence. | ||||||||||
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