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Pietro Lorenzetti (1280 - 1348)
Pietro Lorenzetti
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religious frescoes: dramatic depictions of various emotional biblical scenes; realistic settings, harmonious color, solid-look figures with engaging expressions. Art Work
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Pietro Lorenzetti |
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Male |
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Sienna, Italy |
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| Birth: |
1280 |
| Death: |
1348 |
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Quick Facts
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religious frescoes: dramatic depictions of various emotional biblical scenes; realistic settings, harmonious color, solid-look figures with engaging expressions. |
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Fresco |
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Painting
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Biography
| Little is known about the life of the fourteenth-century Italian painter Pietro Lorenzetti, believed to be active between 1306 and 1345; even the chronology of his surviving works is not certain. It is known that he lived in Siena, the chief cultural center of Tuscany in the late Middle Ages. He is now hailed as one of the best-known proponents of naturalism during the transition from medieval to Renaissance modes of art. It is believed he was a student of the father of Sienese painting, Duccio di Buoninsegna. Along with his equally famous brother Ambrogio, he experimented with fusing Duccio's style with that of the great Florentine painter Giotto and the dynamic sculptures of Giovanni Pisano. By producing works of harmonious color, Lorenzetti specialized in capturing the dramatic emotions of biblical scenes and placing them in realistic settings. With his works at Arezzo in the Pieve di Santa Maria and Assisi in the Basilica of San Francesco, he experimented with convincing threedimensional perspectives for buildings and backdrops and painted solid-looking figures with engaging expressions. His move away from Byzantine art and the triumph of his perspective and naturalistic style are why he has been recognized as one of the forerunners of the Renaissance. His paintings are all the '' more impressive for their lifelike depictions of objects and clothing with intricate |p S l L i patterns. Lorenzetti created rich narratives that include humorous unessential details I' such as a dog licking a plate in The Last Supper (c. 1320-1330) while a servant washes up, though some historians read deeper religious meanings into these seemingly innocent additions. Lorenzetti died in the great plague of 1348, which wiped out half the population of Siena. |
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