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 00 LORENZETTI— LUCATELLI. ness. Siena, Duomo, altar-piece in side chamber of the sacristy. Florence, Uffi^, Madonna and Child, with Angels, signed Petrus Laurentii de Senis me pinxit, Anno Domini, M.CCC.XL.; Berlin, Gallery, four sacred subjects in one frame, and two other pictures, attributed to Pietro. {Vasarif Bumokr.) LORENZO, Don, a Camaldolese Monk, of the monastery Degli Angeli, of Florence, painted 1410. He was of the school of Taddeo Gaddi, and was also a distinguished illuminator. In style and sentiment he resembled Fra Giovanni Angelico, with even more decision and more variety of form. Works, Florence, Santa Maria Nuova, church of the Hospital, a Diumo Domenicale : forty-four minia- tures, of admirable execution : Uffizj, Adoration of the Kings (formerly attri- buted to Fra Angelico) : Academy, the Annunciation: convent of the An- nunziata, a Nativity, in a predella to a picture by Fra Angelico : near Castaldo, church of Ceretto, the Coronation of the Virgin, originally in the Chiesa degli Angeli, 1413. {Vasari.) LORENZO, FioKENZo di, of Perugia, painted 1472--87. Umbrian School. The scholar, probably, of Benozzo Goz- zoli : he is distinguished for his bright colouring, and well-defined modelling of the parts. His pictures are ex- tremely scarce ; in the sacristy of the church of San Francesco, at Perugia, is the Madonna and Child, in glory; likewise a St. Peter and St. Paul, belonging originally to the same pic- ture, signed Florentitu Laurentii, P. Pinxit, 1487 ; in the Berlin Gallery is also a Madonna and Child, attributed to Fiorenzo. He was still living, ac- cording to Mariotti, in 1521. {Evmohr.) LOTTO, Lorenzo, b. at Venice, about 1480, d. at Loreto, about 1558, painted between 1505 and 1554, chiefly at Bergamo. Venetian School. He was a scholar of Gio. Bellini, an emu- lator of Giorgione, and in chiaroscnro an imitator of the works of Leonardo da Vinci, but his earlier works are in the style of Bellini. He is supposed by some to have been tlie scholar of Leonardo, of the name of Lorenzo, but this is not authenticated. Works. Naples, Stu4i Gallery, the Virgin and Child : Bergamo, San Bar- tolomeo, Madonna and Saints: others in San Bernardino; Santo Spirito; in the cathedral; and in Trescorre, on the road to Brescia, frescoes. Ancona, Sta. Maria della Piazza. Florence, Pitti Palace, the Three Ages of Man. Venice, Sti Giovanni e Paolo, Sant' Antonio, with Angels and other figures. Berlin Gallery, the Portrait of the painter, marked L. Lotus Picior; and two sacred subjects (1521 and 1531). Louvre, the Woman taken in Adultery. {Vasari, Tassi.) LUCA, Santo, lived at Florence, about 1200, A.D. He is supposed to have been nicknamed Santo, or the Saint, for his piety; and to him has been ascribed the picture of the Virgin, in Sta. Maria, in Cosmedin, at Rome; and a Christ, in the Lateran Palace, attributed by the vulgar report to St Luke the Evangelist. St. Luke is the patron of painters, from the tradition that he himself was a painter. Johan- nes Damascenus notices the tradition that St. Luke had painted a portrait of the Virgin; this story, therefore, did not originate with this old painter Luca Santo, of Florence: there was, it appears, a Greek hermit of the name of Lucas, who used to paint images of the Virgin, and hence the confusion of St. Luke the Evangelist with St. Luke the hermit There is a Madonna, in the Byzantine style, attri- buted to this Evangelist, in the church of Ara Celi, at Rome ; it may belong to the Greek anchorite. (Lanzi.) LUCATELLI, Andrea, b. at Rome, about 1660, d, 1741. Roman School. J