Pietro Lorenzetti
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Pietro Lorenzetti or Pietro Laurati was an Italian painter, active between c. 1306 and 1345. Together with his younger brother Ambrogio, he introduced naturalism into Sienese art. In their artistry an
Detail of a fresco in the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, 1310–1329
Castiglione d'Orcia Madonna
Last Supper, Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi
Crucifixion, Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi
The Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Assisi, a town in the Umbria region in central Italy, where Saint Francis was bor
Pietro Lorenzetti
…of a translator being paid in association with his work on the Birth of the Virgin. His masterwork is a fresco decoration of the lower church of the Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi, where he painted a series of large scenes depicting the Crucifixion, the Deposition from the Cross, and the Entombment. The massed figures in these…
The Lower and Upper basilicas and the portico, as seen from the Lower Plaza of Saint Francis.
Basilica, as seen from the valley below.
Rear viewed from the north-west
A view of the collapsed celling vault after the Earthquake