Lorenzetti


Ambrogio
[ahm-braw-jaw] /ɑmˈbrɔ dʒɔ/ (Show IPA), c1319–48, and his brother, Pietro
[pye-traw] /ˈpyɛ trɔ/ (Show IPA) c1305–48, Italian painters.
Historical Examples

The younger Lorenzetti, Ambrogio, is represented by three masterpieces.
The Story of Siena and San Gimignano Edmund G. Gardner

In the second room there is a noble collection of paintings by the Lorenzetti.
The Story of Siena and San Gimignano Edmund G. Gardner

The study of nature came in very slowly, and painting was not positive in statement until the time of Giotto and Lorenzetti.
A Text-Book of the History of Painting John C. Van Dyke

The Lorenzetti alone soared high above the Sienese mannerism into a region of masculine imaginative art.
Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3 John Addington Symonds

The larger figure, I am disposed finally to think, represents civic power, as in Lorenzetti’s fresco at Siena.
Mornings in Florence John Ruskin

Therefore Giotto, who represented the Florentine genius in the fourteenth century, set his stamp upon the Lorenzetti.
Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3 John Addington Symonds

Poetry forced Castellani to decide where Solomon should go; Lorenzetti left it vague.
Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature John Addington Symonds

This might be used as an argument against the Lorenzetti hypothesis; for their work at Siena is eminently beautiful.
Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3 John Addington Symonds

He was behind Giotto and Lorenzetti in power and in imagination, and behind Orcagna as a painter.
A Text-Book of the History of Painting John C. Van Dyke

Raphael is buried beneath the base of the statue called la Madonna del Sasso, sculptured by Lorenzetti.
Italy, the Magic Land Lilian Whiting

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