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 and experiments with three-dimensional and spatial arrangements, the brothers foreshadowed the art of the Renaissance.
Paintings by Pietro Lorenzetti
Tarlati Polyptych (1320)
The Tarlati Polyptych is a polyptych painted by the Italian artist Pietro Lorenzetti, in tempera and gold on panel, in 1320. It is located at the church of Santa Maria della Pieve in Arezzo, Tuscany. At its centre is the Madonna (draped in a magnificent ermine-lined robe) and Child, flanked (from left to right) by the saints Donatus (Arezzo's patron saint), John the Evangelist, John the Baptist, and Matthew. The altarpiece is named after its patron Guido Tarlati, Bishop of Arezzo, who died in 1327.
Nativity of the Virgin (Pietro Lorenzetti) (1342)
The Nativity of the Virgin is a painting by the Italian late medieval painter Pietro Lorenzetti, dating from around 1335–1342, now housed in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo of Siena, Italy.
The painting originally decorated the altar of St. Sabinus in the Cathedral of Siena, and had been commissioned as part of a cycle of four altarpieces dedicated to the city's patrons saints (St. Ansanus, St. Sabinus of Spoleto, St. Crescentius and St. Victor) during 1330–1350. These included the Annunciation with St. Margaret and St. Ansanus by Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi, the Presentation at the Temple by Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1342, altar of St. Crescentius), and a Nativity, now disassembled, attributed to Bartolomeo Bulgarini from 1351 (altar of St. Victor). All the paintings should represent stories of the Life of the Madonna, and were crowned by Duccio di Buoninsegna's Maestà.
Monticchiello Altarpiece (1315)
Pietro Lorenzetti (Italian: [ˈpjɛːtro lorenˈtsetti]; c. 1280 – 1348) 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 and experiments with three-dimensional and spatial arrangements, the brothers foreshadowed the art of the Renaissance.
Little is known of Lorenzetti's life other than that he was (putatively) born in Siena in the late 13th century (c. 1280/90), died there (possibly) in 1348 a victim of the first Black Death pandemic then devastating Europe, and had a younger brother, Ambrogio, also an artist. That the men were brothers was unknown to Vasari because he misread Pietro's surname on a painting in Pistoia's church of San Francesco as "Laurati". Thus the kinship between the artists was missed. Pietro was known to have been a young man in 1306 as he was still being referred to as Petruccio di Lorenzo. However, he was at least 25 at the time because he was paid directly.
Crucifixion of Christ (1336)
Pietro lorenzetti, crocifissione di san francesco a siena
Saint Agatha (Lorenzetti) (1315)
Saint Agatha is a c.1315 tempera on panel painting attributed to the Sienese painter Pietro Lorenzetti. It was probably part of a now-split-up larger multi-panel altarpiece. It shows a saint holding a cross in one hand and holding up part of her orange dress in the other. She was long thought to be Agnes of Rome or Margaret of Antioch, but was reidentified to Agatha of Sicily in 1909 by Bernard Berenson - the notch in her top links it to Agatha, whose breasts were cut off during her martyrdom. It was acquired in 1863 by the musée de Tessé in Le Mans.
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Eight Angels (1340)
Madonna and Child
Madonna dei Tramonti (1330)
Madonna dei Tramonti is a fresco by the Italian artist Pietro Lorenzetti. It was in the Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi, in Assisi, Italy, although now it is under private ownership.
The fresco is accompanied by a frescoed niche containing the liturgical implements.
The Road to Calvary (1310)
Christ carrying the cross
The Capture of Christ (1310)
arrest of Jesus
Crucifixion (1310)
The Crucifixion - by Pietro_Lorenzetti_fresco_in_Basilica_di_San_Francesco_of_Assisi