Lorenzo Monaco

The study of Lorenzo Monaco, the Camaldolese monk who was the preeminent Florentine painter during two decades before the advent of Masaccio and Fra Angelico. His earliest panels and miniatures, of the 1390s, reflect various stylistic trends in later fourteenth-century Florentine painting and sculpture; in his maturity he assimilated elements of the International Style into an essentially Tuscan idiom; the final works, from the early 1420s, convey a degree of recognitiion of the emergent Renaissance.