Lorenzo Monaco

Lorenzo Monaco
Lorenzo Monaco, in the Lives of Giorgio Vasari
Born
Piero di Giovanni

c. 1370
probably Siena, Italy
Diedc. 1425
Florence, Italy
Occupation(s)Painter, miniaturist
Adoration of the Magi, c. 1420–1422, Uffizi, Florence

Lorenzo Monaco (c.1370 – c.1425) was an Italian painter and miniaturist of the late Gothic to early Renaissance age.[1] He was born Piero di Giovanni. Little is known about his youth, apart from the fact that he was apprenticed in Florence. He has been considered the last important exponent of the Giotto style, before the Renaissance revolution that came with Fra Angelico and Masaccio.[2]

  1. ^ "Lorenzo Monaco". UK: The National Gallery, London. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  2. ^ Luciano Bellosi, Lorenzo Monaco, collana i maestri del colore n. 73, Milan, Fabbri, 1965 (Italian)