Lorenzo Monaco employs delicately patterned forms that …
Years: 1415 - 1415
Lorenzo Monaco employs delicately patterned forms that are both decorative and naturalistic in the “Monte Oliveto Altarpiece,” executed in 1410, and The Coronation of the Virgin, characterized by a great number of saints and brilliant colors and painted in 1414.
(Contemporary documents record Lorenzo’s activity as a miniaturist during the early fifteenth century, but scholars can ascribe to him with certainty no paintings of this kind.)
