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 of the Florentines. In 1333 Pietro painted a Madonna above the portal of the Siena Duomo, which Luca di Thomé afterwards restored, and in 1335 an altarpiece for the Duomo. In the same year he executed in company with his brother a now destroyed masterpiece—the Marriage of the Virgin, on the front of the Hospital of Siena—which is highly eulogized by Vasari, who says it was in the manner of Giotto. In 1340 Pietro finished for S. Francesco of Pistoja a picture supposed to be that now in the Uffizi, Florence, and two years later painted the Nativity of the Virgin, in the Sacristy of the Duomo, Siena. His altarpiece in the parish church of Arezzo, which is in better preservation though inferior to Giotto, is a more powerful and able work, both in conception and execution, than any produced by his pupils. Other remarkable works by Pietro are the frescos of the Crucifixion, the Passion, and St. Francis receiving the Stigmata, in the lower church of S. Francesco at Assisi, assigned by Vasari to Pietro Cavallini, and those in the Campo Santo, Pisa, representing the life of the hermits in the desert of the Thebaid.—C. & C., Italy, ii. 117; Vasari, ed. Mil., i. 471; ed. Le Mon., ii. 26; Burckhardt, 516; W. & W., i. 466; Rio, 42; Dohme, 2i.; Sienesische Malerschule, i.; Lübke, Ital. Mal., i. 171.

LORENZINO DA BOLOGNA. See Sabbatini, Lorenzo.

LORENZO GIUSTINIANI, ST., APOTHEOSIS OF, Gentile Bellini, Venice Academy; canvas, tempera, figures nearly life-size; signed, dated 1465. St. Lorenzo, born in 1380, was bishop of Castello and first patriarch of Venice; canonized by Alexander VIII. Painted for S. M. dell' Orto, Venice.—C. & C., N. Italy, i. 122.

Glory of St. Lorenzo Giustiniani, Giovanni Antonio Pordenone, Venice Academy.

LORENZO GIUSTINIANI, GLORY OF, Giovanni Antonio Pordenone, Venice Academy; canvas, arched, H. 13 ft. 6 in. × 10 ft. 6 in.; signed. St. Lorenzo standing in a niche, with several monks of his order around him; in foreground, SS. Augustine, Francis of Assisi kneeling, and John Baptist. Painted about 1537 for the Renieri altar in S. M. dell' Orto, Venice; taken to Paris in 1799; returned in 1815 and placed in Academy.—C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 284; Landon, Musée, xi. Pl. 47.

LORENZO MONACO, Don, born near end of 14th century, died aged fifty-five. Florentine school; a Camaldolensian monk in Florence. His style as a painter is that of a disciple of Agnolo Gaddi, but while he shows more religious sentiment than his master, as a draughtsman he is no better. In general tone his work is soft and transparent like that of a miniature painter, and his flesh tints are carefully fused. The only picture bearing his name is a Coronation of the Virgin, dated 1413, formerly in the abbey of his order at Ceretto, and now in the Uffizi, Florence. Its peculiarities enable us