Biographical Catalog of the Principal Italian Painters: With a Table of the ...
Biographical Catalog of the Principal Italian Painters: With a Table of the ...
Maria Farquhar
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Works. Bavenna, San Yitale, Ma- donna and Saints : refectory of the Camaldolese, the Marriage at Cana: San Benedetto, the Circumcision. LOBENZETTI, or di Lorenzo, Ambrogio, b. about 1265, or more pro- bably much later, about 1300; he is first noticed in the Sienese records, in 1323 ; d, about 1348. Sienese School. Painted somewhat in the style of Duc- cio, but with more freedom from the Byzantine taste than is displayed by that painter. In the time of Loren- zetti, the taste for allegory was ex...ces- sive, and his most remarkable works, in the public palace at Siena, and in the Sala de' Nove, are of this class, exe- cuted in 1337-40, and inscribed. Am- brosius Laurentii hie pinxit vtrinque. Giotto, Simone di Martino, and Taddeo Gaddi executed similar works ; but those by Lorenzetti are the most re- markable of this period. They are moral, civil, and political; embodying the philosophy of Aristotle : the whole with a view of inculcating good govern- ment ; the subjects of the three great schemes of the Sala being Justice, Concord, and Peace, showing their consequences, and the consequences of their absence — ^the effects of good and bad Governments.
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