Il buon governo ambrogio lorenzetti biography

Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1290 – 1348) was an Italian painter of the Sienese school.

Il buon governo ambrogio lorenzetti biography

He was active between approximately from 1317 to 1348. Although having done work in Florence, Ambrogio Lorenzetti was known within the Sienese School of painters. This school of painting from Siena, Italy, was an elegant style that was said to rival, at time, even the Florentine painters throughout the 13th and 15th centuries.
Lorenzetti’s work survives in history with a painting from 1328 that contains the first documented existence of the hourglass.

Very few of Lorenzetti’s pieces have survived and his earliest known work was the, Madonna and Child, painted in 1319. His other works, additional to the wall frescos on the Sala dei Nove, include a fresco at San Francesco titled The Investiture of St.

Louis of Toulouse (1329), an altarpiece in