The Crucified Christ between the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist, Lorenzo Monaco, ca. 1406

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The Crucified Christ between the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist, ca. 1406, Tempera on wood, gold ground, Overall, including gable, 33 5/8 x 14 1/2 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) (Italian, Florence (?) ca. 1370–1425 Florence (?)), Lorenzo Monaco, the leading painter in Florence during the early fifteenth century, was equally gifted as an illuminator of books, a painter of frescoes, altarpieces and devotional paintings. This panel likely formed the central pinnacle of a multi-tiered altarpiece, perhaps that portraying the Madonna and Child with Saints Domninus, John the Baptist, Peter, and Anthony Abbot (Museo Diocesano, Empoli

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Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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