LORENZO Monaco
(b. ca. 1370, Siena (?), d. ca. 1425, Firenze)

Marriage of the Virgin

1420-24
Fresco, 210 x 230 cm
Santa Trinita, Florence

Lorenzo's paintings of events from the life of the Virgin in the Bartolini-Salimbeni Chapel was commissioned by the Bartolini family. They cover an earlier fresco cycle by Spinello Aretino believed to have been commissioned by Bartolomeo Salimbeni in 1390.

The painted architecture of the frescoes extends over the entire narrative, stepping back along sharp diagonals, while the row of figures moves in a gradual diagonal back into space.




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