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Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Italian Byzantine Style Painter, ca.1290-1348
Ambrogio Lorenzetti (or Ambruogio Laurati; c. 1290 ?C June 9, 1348) was an Italian painter of the Sienese school. He was active between approximately from 1317 to 1348. His elder brother was the painter Pietro Lorenzetti.
His work shows the influence of Simone Martini, although more naturalistic. The earliest dated work of the Sienese painter is a Madonna and Child (1319, Museo Diocesano, San Casciano). His presence was documented in Florentine up until 1321. He would return there after spending a number of years in Siena.
The frescoes on the walls of the Hall of the Nine (Sala dei Nove) or Hall of the Peace (Sala della Pace) in the Palazzo Pubblico of Siena are one of the masterworks of early renaissance secular painting. The "nine" was the oligarchal assembly of guild and monetary interests that governed the republic. Three walls are painted with frescoes consisting of a large assembly of allegorical figures of virtues in the Allegory of Good Government . In the other two facing panels, Ambrogio weaves panoramic visions of Effects of Good Government on Town and Country, and Allegory of Bad Government and its Effects on Town and Country (also called "Ill-governed Town and Country"). The better preserved "well-governed town and country" is an unrivaled pictorial encyclopedia of incidents in a peaceful medieval "borgo" and countryside.
The first evidence of the existence of the hourglass can be found in one of his paintings.
Like his brother, he is believed to have died of bubonic plague 1348. Giorgio Vasari includes a biography of Lorenzetti in his Lives.
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St Sylvester Sealing thte Dragon's Mouth (mk08)
Between 1340 and 1350
Fresco,535cm
Florence,Santa Croce,Cappella Bardi di Vernio
Painting ID:: 21165
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St_Sylvester_Sealing_thte_Dragon's_Mouth_(mk08)
Between 1340 and 1350
Fresco,535cm
Florence,Santa Croce,Cappella Bardi di Vernio
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The Virtues of Good Government (mk39)
1337-39
Fresco,Palazzo Publico,Siena.
Painting ID:: 25474
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The_Virtues_of_Good_Government_(mk39)
1337-39
Fresco,Palazzo Publico,Siena.
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St.Nicholas Offers Three Girls Their Dowry and St.Nicholas Is Elected Bishop of Mira
mk65
Tempera on panel
37 13/16x20 7/8in
Uffizi,
Painting ID:: 29039
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St.Nicholas_Offers_Three_Girls_Their_Dowry_and_St.Nicholas_Is_Elected_Bishop_of_Mira
mk65
Tempera on panel
37 13/16x20 7/8in
Uffizi,
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The Presentation in the Temple
mk65
Tempera on panel
101 3/16x33 3/16in
Uffizi,
Painting ID:: 29040
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The_Presentation_in_the_Temple
mk65
Tempera on panel
101 3/16x33 3/16in
Uffizi,
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Effects of Good Government in the City
mk68
Fresco
Siena,Sala della Pace,
Palazzo Pubblico
Early Italian
1338-1339
Painting ID:: 30397
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Effects_of_Good_Government_in_the_City
mk68
Fresco
Siena,Sala della Pace,
Palazzo Pubblico
Early Italian
1338-1339
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Ambrogio_Lorenzetti
Italian Byzantine Style Painter, ca.1290-1348
Ambrogio Lorenzetti (or Ambruogio Laurati; c. 1290 ?C June 9, 1348) was an Italian painter of the Sienese school. He was active between approximately from 1317 to 1348. His elder brother was the painter Pietro Lorenzetti.
His work shows the influence of Simone Martini, although more naturalistic. The earliest dated work of the Sienese painter is a Madonna and Child (1319, Museo Diocesano, San Casciano). His presence was documented in Florentine up until 1321. He would return there after spending a number of years in Siena.
The frescoes on the walls of the Hall of the Nine (Sala dei Nove) or Hall of the Peace (Sala della Pace) in the Palazzo Pubblico of Siena are one of the masterworks of early renaissance secular painting. The "nine" was the oligarchal assembly of guild and monetary interests that governed the republic. Three walls are painted with frescoes consisting of a large assembly of allegorical figures of virtues in the Allegory of Good Government . In the other two facing panels, Ambrogio weaves panoramic visions of Effects of Good Government on Town and Country, and Allegory of Bad Government and its Effects on Town and Country (also called "Ill-governed Town and Country"). The better preserved "well-governed town and country" is an unrivaled pictorial encyclopedia of incidents in a peaceful medieval "borgo" and countryside.
The first evidence of the existence of the hourglass can be found in one of his paintings.
Like his brother, he is believed to have died of bubonic plague 1348. Giorgio Vasari includes a biography of Lorenzetti in his Lives.
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