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Pietro Lorenzetti
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Italian painter (c. 1280—1348)
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Pietro Lorenzetti, also known as Pietro Laurati or Pietro Laureati, was a male painter associated with the Sienese school. Born in 1280, he began his work period in 1295 and was a student of Giotto. He held citizenship in the Republic of Siena and worked in that city. His sibling was Ambrogio Lorenzetti.
Lorenzetti died in 1348 in Siena from the plague. His works are held in collections including the Städel Museum, National Gallery of Art, Nationalmuseum, and Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is described in sources such as Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects and the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.
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Person · Open Library
- Died
- ca. 1348
- Works
- 5
via Open Library + Wikidata
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Paolo
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Republic of Siena
- Place of birth
- Siena
- Place of death
- Siena
- Sibling
- Ambrogio Lorenzetti
- Occupation
- painter
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Student of
- Giotto
- Movement
- Sienese school
- Image
- 010 le vite, pietro laurati.jpg
- Work location
- Siena
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- Commons category
- Pietro Lorenzetti
- date of birth
- 1280-00-00
- date of death
- 1348-00-00
- catalog
- Web Gallery of Art
- Commons Creator page
- Pietro Lorenzetti
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- plague
- name
- Pietro Laurati
- start of work period
- 1295-01-01
- end of work period
- 1348-01-01
- partner in business or sport
- Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Sources (7)
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Works in European collections
24 objects attributed to Pietro Lorenzetti, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Birth of Mary
Children’s murder of Bethlehem
Madonna between Saint Francis and John Evangelista
Crucifixion of Christ
Throning Madonna with Child
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Stigmatization of Saint Francis
Mary with the Child, Folio 00047
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Encyclopedic overview
Detail of a fresco in the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, 1310–1329 Pietro Lorenzetti ( Italian: [ˈpjɛːtro lorenˈtsetti]; c. 1280 – 1348) or Pietro Laurati was an Italian painter, active between c. 1306 and 1345. Together with his younger brother Ambrogio, he introduced naturalism into Sienese art. In their artistry and experiments with three-dimensional and spatial arrangements, the brothers foreshadowed the art of the Renaissance.
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