Pentecoste lorenzo monaco biography

Drama

The increasingly dramatic content of his painting led to a sort of heightened formality which reaches a climax in the Coronation of the Virgin mentioned above, and in the Crucifixion of the same year (Florence, Church of S.

Giovannnino dei Cavalieri).

Lorenzo Monaco - Wikipedia

There is an intensely spiritual significance in the gentle, arched outlines of the elongated figures, the vividly contrasting colours, and the arbitrary interplay of light on the sinuous folds of fabrics. Added to this there is an attempt at psychological depth in the accentuated facial expressions. Gradually, religious meditation becomes reverie until, in compositions like the Scenes from the Life of St Onophrius and St Nicholas of Bari (Florence, Accademia) or the Journey of the Three Kings (drawing, Berlin-Dahlem), it is transformed into fairy-tale.

Final Works

During the last phase of Lorenzo's activity his style gradually became calmer, while, at the same time, he began to exp