Ambrogio Lorenzetti
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Ambrogio Lorenzetti
( fl c. 1317; d before May 1348). Brother of (1) Pietro Lorenzetti. Ghiberti styled Ambrogio a 'most perfect' and learned master. He was certainly the most inventive Sienese artist of the early 14th century. Many of his innovations in naturalism are without parallel; many of his works are characterized by iconography that is equally original. His lost 'Roman stories' from the exterior of the Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, suggest an ability to deal with highly unusual subject matter; the lost Mappamondo, an ability to create new forms (see
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Ambrogio Lorenzetti
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| Birth name | Ambrogio Lorenzetti |
| Born | c. 1285/1290 Siena, Italy |
| Died | 9 June 1348 |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Field | Painting, Fresco |
| Movement | Gothic |
| Works | Allegory of good government, Allegory of bad government |
Ambrogio Lorenzetti (or Ambruogio Laurati) (c. 1290 – 9 June 1348) was an Italian painter of the Sienese school. He was active between approximately 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 Florence up until 1321. He would return there after spending a number of years in Siena.[1]
The frescoes on the walls of the Room of the Nine (Sala dei Nove) or Room of 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.[2] 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 in 1348. Giorgio Vasari includes a biography of Lorenzetti in his Lives.
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Selected works
- Virgin and Child Enthroned (1319)
- Investiture of St. Louis of Toulouse (1329), fresco at San Francesco, Siena
- San Procolo altarpiece (1332)
- Annunciation (1334). Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena
- Franciscan Martyrdom at Bombay (c. 1336), fresco at San Francesco, Siena
- Santa Petronilla Altarpiece (1340s)
- Presentation at the Temple (1342). Uffizi, Florence
- Good Government (1338)
Paintings
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Stories of St. Nicholas c. 1332
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Stories of St. Nicholas c. 1332
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Saint-Nicolas Miraculously Filling the Holds of the Ships with Grain, c.1332
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Good Government in the Countryside, c. 1338 - 1340, 2 panels, Palazzo Pubblico of Siena
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Presentation in the Temple, c. 1342, The Uffizi Gallery
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Annunciation, c. 1344, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena
References
- ^ Casu, Franchi, Franci. The Great Masters of European Art. Barnes & Noble, Inc., 2006. Page 34, Retrieved November 25, 2006.
- ^ http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/01-2/l_full.jpg
Further reading
- Bowsky, William M. (1962). "The Buon Governo of Siena (1287-1355): A Mediaeval Italian Oligarchy". Speculum 37 (3): 368–381. doi:10.2307/2852358.
- Bowsky, William M. (1981). A Medieval Italian Commune; Siena Under The Nine, 1287-1355. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-04256-5.
- Debby, Nirit Ben-Aryeh (2001). "War and Peace: the description of Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Frescoes in Saint Bernardino’s 1425 Siena Sermons". Renaissance Studies 15 (3): 273–286. doi:10.1111/1477-4658.00370.
- Feldges-Henning, Uta (1972). "The Pictorial Programme of the Sala della Pace: A New Interpretation". Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 35: 145–162. doi:10.2307/750926.
- Frugoni, Chiara (1988). Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti. Florence, Italy: Scala, Istituto Fotografico Editoriale. ISBN 0-935748-80-6.
- Greenstein, Jack M. (1988). "The Vision of Peace: Meaning and Representation in Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Sala Della Pace Cityscapes". Art History 11 (4): 492–510.
- Norman, Diana (1997). "Pisa, Siena, and the Maremma: a neglected aspect of Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s paintings in the Sala dei Nove". Renaissance Studies 11 (4): 311–341. doi:10.1111/j.1477-4658.1997.tb00025.x.
- Polzer, Joseph (2002). "Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s 'War and Peace' Murals Revisited: Contributions to the Meaning of the 'Good Government Allegory'". Artibus et Historiae 23 (45): 63–105. doi:10.2307/1483682.
- Prazniak, Roxann (2010). "Siena on the Silk Roads: Ambrogio Lorenzetti and the Mongol Global Century, 1250–1350". Journal of World History 21 (2): 177–217. doi:10.1353/jwh.0.0123.
- Rubinstein, Nicolai (1958). "Political Ideas in Siense Art: The Frescoes by Ambrogio Lorenzetti and Taddeo di Bartolo in the Palazzo Pubblico". Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 21 (3/4): 179–207. doi:10.2307/751396.
- Skinner, Quentin (1989). "Ambrogio Lorenzetti: The Artist as Political Philosopher". In Belting, Hans; Blume, Dieter. Malerei und Stadtkultur in der Dantezeit: die Argumentation der Bilder. Munich: Hirmer. pp. 85–103. ISBN 3-7774-5030-8.
- Southard, Edna Carter (1979). The Frescoes in Siena’s Palazzo Pubblico, 1289-1539: Studies in Imagery and Relations to other Communal Palaces in Tuscany. New York: Garland. ISBN 0-8240-3967-X.
- Starn, Randolph (1987). "The Republican Regime of the “Room of Peace” in Siena, 1338-40". Representations 18: 1–32. doi:10.2307/3043749.
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