Lorenzo Monaco

Sienese · 1370–1425

He was born Piero di Giovanni.

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Lorenzo Monaco · National Gallery of Art

Who Lorenzo Monaco was

Lorenzo Monaco was a Sienese painter and miniaturist of the late Gothic to early Renaissance age, active principally in Florence. 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.

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