Pietro lorenzetti carmelite altarpiece

          Instead of taking their subject from the bible, these five paintings show events from the history of the Carmelite Order.!

          This large altarpiece was painted starting in by Pietro Lorenzetti.

        1. Virgin is emphasized in Pietro's altarpiece by the gesture of the.
        2. Instead of taking their subject from the bible, these five paintings show events from the history of the Carmelite Order.
        3. Lorenzetti's Carmelite Altarpiece (commissioned in ).
        4. This painting formed a panel of the predella of the dismembered altarpiece in the Carmelite church San Niccolò al Carmine in Siena.

          5. Pietro Lorenzetti

          Italian painter (1280–1348)

          Pietro Lorenzetti (Italian:[ˈpjɛːtrolorenˈtsetti]; c. 1280 – 1348) or Pietro Laurati was an Italian painter, active between c. 1306 and 1345.

          Together with his younger brother Ambrogio, he introduced naturalism into Sienese art. In their artistry and experiments with three-dimensional and spatial arrangements, the brothers foreshadowed the art of the Renaissance.

          Overview

          Little is known of Lorenzetti's life other than that he was (putatively) born in Siena in the late 13th century (c. 1280/90),[1] died there (possibly) in 1348 a victim of the first Black Death pandemic then devastating Europe, and had a younger brother, Ambrogio, also an artist.

          That the men were brothers was unknown to Vasari because he misread Pietro's surname on a painting in Pistoia's church of San Francesco as "Laurati".[2] Thus the kinship between the artists was missed. Pietro was known to have been a y