Lorenzo Monaco (1370–1422)

Italian painter. He produced illuminated manuscripts, altarpieces, and frescoes. Among his paintings are Coronation of the Virgin, (1413) and Adoration of the Magi, (1420–22, both Uffizi, Florence).

He was born in Siena and settled in Florence as a Camaldolese monk. He introduced a Gothic element into Florentine art, to be seen in his elongated figures and decorative colour – his Annunciation (Accademia, Florence) is already close in feeling to the work of his successor, Fra Angelico. His own development, however, also shows the gradual assimilation of elements of Florentine styles such as that of Agnolo Gaddi, a follower of Giotto.