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Artist

Lorenzo Monaco

Year
ca. 1370 - 1425 Florence
Price range
1,000,000 – 3,000,000 USD +
Lorenzo Monaco, the pre-eminent Florentine painter in the first quarter of the fifteenth century, made his mark with the perfection of the early International Gothic style.

The characteristic qualities which won him such renown are unexpected combinations of brilliant color and an extraordinarily graceful line which is both visually appealing and dramatically expressive, all fused to produce profoundly moving works on a variety of scale.

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Selected Artworks
Market

Top 3 auction prices

1,760,831 $
2005
1,877,151 $
2004
3,615,000 $
2019

Details

The sales are: Sotheby’s London – 7 Dec 2005 lot 00035 (1,016,000 GBP), Koller Auktionen AG Zurich – 26 Mar 2004 lot 3008 (2,399,000 CHF), and Christie’s New York – 1 May 2019 lot 10.
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Further Reading

Antonio Natali and Angelo Tartuferi, ed., Bagliori Dorati: Il Gotico Internazionale a Firenze 1375-1440, exh. cat., Florence, 2012.

Angelo Tartuferi, ed., Lorenzo Monaco: a bridge from Giotto’s heritage to the Renaissance, exh. cat. Florence, 2006.

Laurence Kanter, ed., Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence 1300-1450, exh. cat., New York, 1994.

Marvin Eisenberg, Lorenzo Monaco, Princeton, 1989.

Notable Exhibitions

Florence, Gallerie degli Uffizi, Bagliori dorati: Il Gotico Internazionale a Firenze, 1375–1440, 19 June – 4 November 2012. Curated by Antonio Natali, Enrica Neri Lusanna, and Angelo Tartuferi.

Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, Fra Angelico and the Masters of Light, 23 September 2011 – 16 January 2012. Curated by Giovanna Damiani and Nicolas Sainte Fare Garnot.

Paris, Musée du Louvre, Les enluminures du Louvre: Moyen âge et Renaissance, 7 July – 10 October 2011. Curated by François Avril, Nicole Reynaud, and Dominique Cordelier.

Florence, Galleria dell’Accademia di Firenze, Lorenzo Monaco: A bridge from Giotto’s heritage to the Renaissance, 9 May – 24 September 2006. Curated by Angelo Tartuferi.

New York, Museum of Metropolitan Art, Painting and illumination in early Renaissance Florence, 1300-1450, 17 November 1994 – 26 February 1995. Curated by Laurence Kanter.

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