St. Nicholas Rescues The Shipwrecked
by Lorenzo Monaco (c. 1370-c. 1425)
Circa 1st quarter of the 15th century
Tempera on Wood
7.48 inches by 20.47 inches
Lorenzo Monaco, born in Siena, was a painter and manuscript illuminator - as well as a monk, joining the Camaldolese monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli in 1390. He was influenced by Giotto early on and later by the art of the International Gothic style.
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