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Pacino di Bonaguida, Altarpiece with St Nicholas, St John the Evangelist and St Proculus
Read more...Pacino di Bonaguida was an Italian painter and illuminator who spent his entire career in Florence and was active from 1302 to 1340. In addition to altarpieces, he painted miniatures and decorations for illuminated manuscripts. Pacino is now considered the inventor of miniaturism, a style distinguished by a clear organisation of the painting surface into multiple small-scale scenes. He worked in ...
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Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Madonna and Child with St Nicholas and St Proculus
Read more...Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Madonna and Child with St Nicholas and St Proculus is also known as the San Procolo Triptych, because it was specially painted as an altarpiece for the Church of San Procolo in ...
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Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Four Stories from the Life of St Nicholas
Read more...Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Four Stories from the Life of St Nicholas was painted around 1330. It originally hung in the Church of San Procolo in Florence, where it was seen by Giorgio Vasari in the mid-si...
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Lorenzo Monaco, Annunciation Triptych
Read more...Lorenzo Monaco’s Annunciation with St Catherine, St Anthony Abbot, St Proculus and St Francis is painted in the International Gothic style and was commissioned for the Church of San Procolo in Floren...
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