AMBROGIO LORENZETTI

The Uffizi Galleries conserve three works by Ambrogio Lorenzetti (Siena 1290-1348) which had a notable influence on the development of Italian painting in the fourteenth century. These are the Stories of Saint Nicholas (1332-1334), the Altarpiece of Saint Crescenzio (1342), of which only the panel with the Presentation of Christ in the Temple remains, and the Triptych of Saint Proculus (1332). Studies carried out by Max Seidel and Serena Calamai highlight the role played by these paintings, first in the Sienese and then in Tuscany, an...[Read more]