Лоренцо Монако (Пьеро ди Джованни)(~1370 - 1423), итальянский живописец, монах.
Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni), Italian (Florence) painter.
Piero di Giovanni became 'Lorenzo Monaco' (Lorenzo the Monk) upon taking his vows in 1391 at the Camaldolese monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli, Florence.
Lorenzo Monaco, painter and Camaldolite monk whose activity as illuminator appears in bright colours.
Around 1400 the Sienese Lorenzo Monaco had one of the most flourishing workshops in Florence.
He produced book illustrations and altarpieces, some for his own monastery.
Lorenzo's oeuvre displays an evolution from the Florentine late Trecento manner to the more flowing style of painting generally known as International Gothic, typified by figures delineated by the flowing lines of draperies.
Lorenzo deployed the idiom with extraordinary delicacy.
Unlike many other painters of the International Gothic, he had a natural talent for monumental figure compositions.
