The lorenzetti's

Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Younger brother of a painter Pietro Lorenzetti who was probably Ambrogio’s first teacher. In 1321 he moved to Florence to study Florentine art (Giotto and Arnolfo di Cambio). He entered ‘Arte dei Medici e Speziali’ in 1327. After the departure of Simone Martini to Avignon in 1336, Ambrogio established a ‘very florentine’ workshop in Siena. He died from a plague in 1348.


(Saint Mary Magdalena
1330-1340
Gold and tempera on panel
Siena, Museo dell’Opera del Duomo)


(Saint Francis
1330-1340
Gold and tempera on panel
Siena, Museo dell’Opera del Duomo)


(Saint Catherine
1330-1340
Gold and tempera on panel
Siena, Museo dell’Opera del Duomo)


(Saint Benedict
1330-1340
Gold and tempera on panel
Siena, Museo dell’Opera del Duomo)

LORENZETTI, Pietro

(b. 1290, Siena, d. 1348, Siena)

Pietro (circa 1280-1348) was the more traditional of the two brothers, showing harmony, refinement, and detail but also dramatic emotion. his work includes the altarpiece Madonna and Child with Saints (1320, Santa Maria Della Pieve, Arezzo), dramatic frescoes in the lower tower of San Francisco in Assisi and the calmer, later masterpiece the Birth of the Virgin(c. 1342, Opera del Duomo, Siena).

(Panoramic view of the frescoes
1320-40
Fresco
Lower Church, San Francesco, Assisi)


(View of the south transept
c. 1320
Fresco
Lower Church, San Francesco, Assisi)