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Monday
May252015

Lorenzo Monaco: “Laurence the Monk”

DateMonday, May 25, 2015 at 8:00AM
Lorenzo Monaco - St Jerome in the Wilderness - n.d. - Tempera on poplar panel, 23x36 cm - Private collection (click photo for larger image)Lorenzo Monaco (c. 1370-c. 1425) was an Italian painter who was probably born in Siena, but seems to have spent all his professional life in Florence. In 1391 he took his vows as a monk of the Camaldolese monastery of Sta Maria degli Angeli. He rose to the rank of deacon, but in 1402 he was enrolled in the painters' guild under his lay name, Piero di Giovanni (Lorenzo Monaco means 'Laurence the Monk'), and was living outside the monastery. The monastery was renowned for its manuscript illuminations and several miniatures in books in the Laurentian Library in Florence have been attributed to him, but he was primarily a painter of altarpieces.

This painting once belonged to a polyptych in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence. The polyptych was dismembered and its panels are now scattered in various museums. The present panel was part of the predella comprising of five panels.

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