Presentation at the Temple
Ambrogio Lorenzetti · 1342
Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Republic of Siena · 1290–1348
Ambrogio Lorenzetti was an Italian painter of the Sienese school. He was active from approximately 1317 to 1348. He painted The Allegory of Good and Bad Government in the Sala dei Nove (Salon of Nine or Council Room) in the Palazzo Pubblico at Siena. His elder brother was the painter Pietro Lorenzetti.
Known works
Presentation at the Temple
Ambrogio Lorenzetti · 1342
Uffizi Gallery
The Presentation at the Temple is a 1342 painting by the Italian late medieval painter Ambrogio Lorenzetti, signed and dated 1342, now housed in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence, Italy. It is one of the largest works by the Italian medieval painter, as well as one of the five which he signed and dated. The painting originally decorated the altar of St. Crescentius in the Cathedral of Siena, and had been commissioned as part of a cycle of four altarpieces dedicated to the city's patrons saints (St. Ansanus, St. Sabinus of Spoleto, St. Crescentius and St. Victor) during 1330 to 1350.
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