\paperw3795 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 \b LORENZO MONACO, Piero di Giovanni called\par
\b0 Italian painter and illuminator\par
(Siena? c\i .\i0 1370 - Florence 1423/4)
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Devoting himself to illumination after his ordination as a priest in the Camaldolensian monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Florence, he completed his apprenticeship as a painter in the late-Giottesque circles of Agnolo Gaddi, Spinello Aret
ino and Andrea Orcagna. His encounter with Lorenzo Ghiberti in the early years of the fifteenth century led to a fundamental renewal of certain elements of his style. While some aspects of his work, such as the use of a rhythmic and modulated line, indi
cate the influence of late-Gothic culture, they are contained within clearly Florentine canons, so that his pictures are remote from the fairy-tale and chivalrous atmosphere of International Gothic and his interpretation of the sacred theme is always spa
