A Patron for Lorenzo Monaco's Uffizi: Coronation of the Virgin.
From: The Art Bulletin
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Date: 6/1/2000
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Author: Bent, George R.
In 1413 Gamaldolese monks at S. Maria degli Angeli installed Lorenzo Monaco's Coronation of the Virgin on the high altar of their monastic church (Fig. 1). [1] Now located in the Uffizi Galleries and recognized as one of the most important Late Gothic paintings produced during the Florentine quattrocento, the enormous altarpiece has been understood as Lorenzo Monaco's crowning artistic achievement. Scholars have rightly focused attention on the picture's formal qualities and its ...
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