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La Natività

ca. 1406–10
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 952
Lorenzo Monaco, eminente pittore e miniaturista fiorentino dell’inizio del Quattrocento, era un monaco camaldolese a cui fu concesso di gestire una fiorente bottega esterna al monastero, Santa Maria degli Angeli. La grande raffinatezza e delicatezza delle armoniose tonalità di colore di questo dipinto, una delle opere più famose dell’artista, rispecchiano la sua maestria di miniaturista. Alcuni elementi della composizione, come il tetto spiovente della capanna, si adattano abilmente alla forma irregolare del quadrilobo della tavola, che in origine faceva parte della predella di una pala d’altare.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Titolo: La Natività
  • Artista: Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni), Italiano, ca. 1370-1425
  • Data: ca. 1406-10
  • Materiale e tecnica: Tempera su tavola, con fondo oro
  • Dimensioni: 22,2 x 31,1 cm
  • Crediti: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
  • Numero d'inventario: 1975.1.66
  • Curatorial Department: The Robert Lehman Collection

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Three Virtues (Temperance, Hope, and Fortitude or Justice) and Studies of a Seated Man, Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) Italian, Metalpoint, touches of brush and brown wash, heightened with white (partially oxidized in the figure at the lower left), on reddish violet prepared paper. Some lines retraced in pen and brown ink at a later date., Italian, Florence
Three Virtues (Temperance, Hope, and Fortitude or Justice) and Studies of a Seated Man
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Last Judgment in an Initial C, Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) Italian, Tempera and gold on parchment
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The Crucified Christ between the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist, Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) Italian, Tempera on wood, gold ground
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Abraham, Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) Italian, Tempera on wood, gold ground
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Moses, Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) Italian, Tempera on wood, gold ground
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