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Lorenzo Monaco : a bridge from Giotto's heritage to the renaissance / edited by Angelo Tartuferi, Daniela Parenti.
- Title
- Lorenzo Monaco : a bridge from Giotto's heritage to the renaissance / edited by Angelo Tartuferi, Daniela Parenti.
- Publication
- Firenze : Giunti, 2006.
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- Description
- 335 p.
- Summary
- Lorenzo Monaco was an Italian painter who was probably born in Siena, but seems to have spent all his professional life in Florence. In 1391 he took his vows as a monk of the Camaldolese monastery of Sta Maria degli Angeli. He rose to the rank of deacon, but in 1402 he was enrolled in the painters' guild under his lay name, Piero di Giovanni (Lorenzo Monaco means 'Laurence the Monk'), and was living outside the monastery. The monastery was renowned for its manuscript illuminations and several miniatures in books in the Laurentian Library in Florence have been attributed to him, but he was primarily a painter of altarpieces, good examples of which are in the National Gallery in London and the Uffizi in Florence. His main works in fresco are the scenes of the Life of Mary in the Bartolini Chapel of Sta Trinità, Florence. His style is distinguished by luminous beauty of colouring and a graceful, rhythmic flow of line. He stands in complete contrast to his great contemporary Masaccio and represents the highest achievement of the last flowering of Gothic art in Florence. Lorenzo Monaco was an artist whose work bridged the 14th and 15th centuries, between the Trecento art of Duccio and Giotto and the Quattrocento painting of Masaccio and Fra Angelico - upon whom Monaco was an important influence. His art was a synthesis of the Sienese and Florentine Trecento styles and was also one of the most important examples of International Gothic in Italy.
- Subject
- Lorenzo, Monaco, 1370 or 1371-1425
- Genre/Form
- exhibition catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs
- Catalogues d'exposition.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-335).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Lorenzo Monaco : notes on an exhibition / Angelo lartuferi -- Lorenzo Monaco :Santa Maria degli Angeli and the Camaldolese Visual Culture / Roberta Melis -- The Coronation of the Virgin for the main altar of Santa Maria degli Angeli : iconography and purpose / Anneke de Vries and Victor M. Schmidt -- Note on an Early Addition to the Coronation of the Virgin in the Uffizi / by Maria Sframeli -- Lorenzo Monaco : the later years / Luciano Bellosi -- Notes on the punched decoration in Lorenzo Monaco's panel paintings / Erling Skaug -- Lorenzo Monaco and Fra Angelico / Laurence Kanter -- The world of Lorenzo Monaco: the rise of the late gothic in Florentine painting / Daniela Parenti -- Lorenzo Monaco, illuminator : the early days / Gaudenz Freuler -- Lorenzo Monaco, illuminator : between 1410 and his final years (with some considerations on contemporary Florentine miniatures) / Ada labriola.
- OCLC
- 70147346
- SCSB-9955951
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library