biography
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Lorenzo
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known as il Monaco (‘the Monk’), originally Piero di Giovanni
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pronunciation:
[lorenzoh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.1370–c.1425)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Siena, C Italy. By 1391 he was a monk in the Camaldolite monastery of S Maria degli Angeli, Florence, and his great altarpiece, ‘The Coronation of the Virgin’ (1414, now in the Uffizi) was painted for the high altar there. His graceful, linear, Gothic style epitomizes the last phase of mediaeval art before the onset of the Renaissance. |
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