Encyclopedia of world art online Art gallery Studio-I. Lorenzetti Ambrogio (1295-1348). The materials of this issue was prepared with the financial support of O. Stargardzie, , Moscow Issue 209. Within the framework of National Eucational Program Encyclopedia of World Art, on the website of the gallery interior painting Studio-I(stydiai.ru),page Artists-L posted by new information. Art lovers can get acquainted with the work of Italian painter of the Sienese school Ambrogio Lorenzetti. Ambrogio Lorenzetti was born in 1295 in Siena with the family of a merchant. Exact information about the date of birth Ambrogio and how they called the parents of the future painter no. Until 1319, the name Ambrogio Lorenzetti in historical documents and Chronicles of the time is not mentioned. We only know that the first teacher Ambrogio was his older brother Pietro, talented and and successful painter of the time. The earliest of the extant works by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, the authorship of which is not questioned, is the Madonna with child (1919, the Museum of religious art in San Casciano Val di Pesa). In this work, in contrast to the traditions of the Siennese school, there is the artists interest in the volume and weight of the image. The image of the Madonna, frozen in voltage is. In this and subsequent works influenced by his work the works of Giotto and Arnolfo di Cambio. Giorgio Vasari, in his outstanding work on artists graphies of the most famous painters of the dedicated Ambrogio small but very flattering Chapter, describing him as a man of a philosophical turn of mind, who endured with the spirit of the moderate and peaceful good and evil, granted by fate. According to Vasari Ambrogio Lorenzetti was revered by his contemporaries not only as an artist but as a writer that he constantly communicated with people scientists and deserved, and more like a nobleman and philosopher, than the artist...Ambrogio Lorenzetti was quite interested in the achievements of the Florentine school of painting, repeatedly visiting Florence. He first visited the city in 1321, and in 1328 of Ambrogio Lorenzetti joined the Florentine Corporation Arte dei Medici e Specialized(Guild Association of physicians and pharmacists, which began to enter and artists). Florence trail was reflected in many works of this period of his work:Madonna with child (Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera), the Crucifixion (Siena, Pinacoteca), Madonna with child (new York, Metropolitan Museum of art), as well as in the frescoes, painted in Siena Church of San Francesco(the Martyrdom of the Franciscans and the Vow of St. Louis of Toulouse), in which the interpretation of the space produced in the Florentine spirit, but more realistic. Historians painting attributed Ambrogio Lorenzetti to the main representatives of the first generation of Siena recenthistory painters. According to historians, Ambrogio Lorenzetti was the only one of the Sienese masters, who was interested in ancient culture and conquest of Florentine art, and enthusiastically engaged in perspective. The artist managed over sixty years before Brunelleschi to open a single vanishing point lines, albeit in a plane, and not in a beautifully designed space. The creative artist is always developed in parallel with the work of his older brother, also a famous painter Pietro Lorenzetti.In addition to the relationship of the brothers had a great friendship based on common interests and intellectual unity. Both brothers were interested in the achievements of the Florentine school, considering them from the point of view of the traditions of Siena.In 1324-1327 years Ambrogio creates murals the Martyrdom of the Franciscans and the Vow of St. Louis of Toulouse, which led to the admiration of Vasari. In these works, affects the image of the real space and the art of transmission of drama happening. In 1330 Ambrogio wrote fresco Maesta in the Piccolomini chapel of the Church of San Agostino in Siena. According to historians it was during this period Ambrogio is gradually released from the Florentine influence and develops his own individual style, which is characterized by a master image space and found the balance transfer amount and fineness of the lines. In 1332, in a new manner, Ambrogio wrote a triptych of the Madonna and child with saints (Florence, Uffizi). Characteristics of the new individual style wizard are : realism, a completely new interpretation of space and combining images of psychologism. His images are more humane, they are really truthful, their behavior permeated earthly joy. It is thus written: four scenes from the life of St. Nicholas (Florence, Uffizi), a beautiful Allegory of redemption (Siena, national Pinakothek), panels of the polyptych from the Church of Santa Petronilla (Madonna with child, Mary Magdalene, St. Dorothea , Siena, national gallery) and the frescoes in the chapel Montesiepi (Maesta, the Annunciation).All these works Ambrogio, is preceded by the famous fresco the Allegory of Good and Evil of the Board and their fruits in the town and village, written in 1337-1339 (Siena, Palazzo to the Public). In 1335 Ambrogio together with his brother Pietro writes frescoes on the facade of the Church of Santa Maria della Scala in Siena and depicting Scenes from the life of Mary (does not exist). 1337-1339 years, Ambrogio together with his brother Pietro is working to create a grandiose frescoes on the walls of Siena town hall, which was the focus of the most interesting and different in nature monuments Sienese painting from the 14th century. The content of these paintings, giving an allegorical image of “Good and Evil of the Board and their consequences”, it is difficult and confusing, as it was characteristic of allegorical themes that time, and not always amenable solution. Work has attracted brightness of the images and narrative skill. In 1340 in Avignon moved Simone Martini, and the brothers Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti became the leading painters of Siena performing more and more ambitious orders. In 1342 by Ambrogio Lorenzetti creates Bringing in the temple for the Ospedaletto in Monna Agnese (now Florence, Uffizi).The work is crowned by the experiences of the artist in search of prospects, started Ambrogio at the time of his first acquaintance with the Florentine culture. Throughout the following centuries, ornamental wealth and luxury Ambrogio Lorenzetti will serve as a model for the Sienese painters. Ambrogio Lorenzetti died suddenly in may 1348 in Siena during the plague. Body Ambrogio was burned. The most famous and outstanding work by Ambrogio Lorenzetti are murals, written by him in the hall of the Nine Siena town hall Palazzo Pubblico. Along with Duccio and Simone Martini, Ambrogio Lorenzetti is the greatest Italian painter of the first half of the XIV century(more info about the artist on the website....). To be continued...... Attention! All rights reserved. When reprinting, reference to the author - mandatory!
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