Fiorenzo di Lorenzo

The Adoration of the Magi (c. 1490) Tempera on panel, 151 x 209 cm Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia

Fiorenzo di Lorenzo (Template:Circa 1440 – 1522) was an Italian painter, of the Umbrian school. He lived and worked at Perugia,Template:Sfn where most of his authentic works are still preserved in the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria.<ref>Fiorenzo di Lorenzo, Umbria e Arte Template:Webarchive Template:In lang</ref>

Fiorenzo is known from a few signed works, including the Madonna of the Recommended (1476) and a niche with lunette, two wings and predella (1487), as well as from the documentary evidence that he was decemvir of that city in 1472, in which year he entered into a contract to paint an altarpiece for the church of Santa Maria Nuova, the pentatych of the Madonna and Saints.Template:Sfn

Of his birth and death and pupilage nothing is known.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Renaissance art biographer Giorgio Vasari does not even mention Fiorenzo's name, though he probably refers to him when he says that Cristofano, Perugino's father, sent his son to be the shop drudge of a painter in Perugia, who was not particularly distinguished in his calling, but held the art in great veneration and highly honoured the men who excelled therein. Certain it is that the early works both of Perugino and of Pinturicchio show certain mannerisms which point towards Fiorenzo's influence, if not to his direct teaching.Template:Sfn

The list of some fifty pictures which modern critics have ascribed to Fiorenzo includes works of such widely varied character that the scholars' suggestions of the masters under whom Fiorenzo is supposed to have studied varies. Pisanello, Verrocchio, Benozzo Gozzoli, Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Benedetto Bonfigli, Andrea Mantegna, Francesco Squarcione, Filippo Lippi, Luca Signorelli and Domenico Ghirlandaio have all been mentioned.Template:Sfn

According to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition Template:Harv: Template:Blockquote

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