Sunday, September 23, 2012

Lorenzetti "Birth of the Virgin"



Pietro Lorenzetti
"Birth of the Virgin"
Altar of Saint Savinus
Siena, Italy
Tempera on Wood
International Gothic Style


This painting is an example of a triptych, a 3 part panel painting. Like Martini, Lorenzetti was also a student of Duccio's. Lorinzetti contributed greatly to the experiments in pictoral realism of 14th century Italy by achieving a degree of spatial illusionism in this work.

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