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Individuals

Lorenzo Monaco (don) (OSB Cam)

Alternate Forenames

  • Lorenzo d'Albizo Fiorentino
  • Lorenzo degli Angeli
  • Piero di Giovanni
  • Pietro di Giovanni dalle Tovaglie
Gender male
Age at Death 55
Database ID 15484

Life Dates

circa 1370 (date is approximate)
 birth
1425
 death

Employments (2 total)

December 10th, 1391 to May 24th, 1424 (year is uncertain) a

Memorials (2 total)

Angeli 15b chiusino per li monaci 1 of 4
circa 1425 (date is approximate)
 b
S. Procolo 03.1 Altare di S. Antonio de Pannocchia
circa 1409 (date is approximate)

Related Groups (1 total)

monaci di S. Maria degli Angeli

Sources (6 total)

G. Farulli, Istoria cronologica pp. 31
A. Tartuferi and D. Parenti, Lorenzo Monaco
G. R. Bent, Monastic Art
G.R. Bent, “Santa Maria degli Angeli"
D. Gordon, "The paintings"
Getty, ULAN rec. 500026261

Notes

  • [a] His monastery's Registro Nuovo records his day of death on May 24th, and that he is buried in the monastery, but did not give the year. (Bent, p. 80)
  • [b] In his biography of Lorenzo Monaco in the first edition of his Vite (1550, p. 216), Giorgio Vasari notes that he was buried in the usual tomb of the monks (nella solita loro sepultura pietosamente riposto). He also quotes an epitaph (p. 217), but this was surely only a literary memorial and not carved on any of the monks' tombs in the chapter room. It is impossible to know which of the four graves was used for don Lorenzo, but we can be certain he was buried alongside his brethren in the chapter room. It is puzzling that Vasari omitted his description of Lorenzo's death and honorific epitaph in his second edition.