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“Annunciation,” gold leaf and tempera on wood panel by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, 1344; in the Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena, Italy. Ambrogio Lorenzetti: Saving Myra from Famine The Effects of Good Government in the City
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Born c.1285 • Siena • Italy
Died c.1348
Movement / Style Gothic art

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“Annunciation,” gold leaf and tempera on wood panel by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, 1344; in the Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena, Italy.
Ambrogio Lorenzetti: Saving Myra from Famine
The Effects of Good Government in the City
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Pietro Lorenzetti
Italian painter
Giotto: Lamentation
Giotto
Italian painter
Masaccio
Italian painter
Piero della Francesca: The Flagellation of Christ
Piero della Francesca
Italian painter
Fra Filippo Lippi: Madonna and Child
Fra Filippo Lippi
Italian painter
The Birth of the Virgin, fresco by Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1486–90; in the choir of Santa Maria Novella, Florence.
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Italian painter
Paolo Uccello
Italian painter
Baptism of Christ
Masolino
Italian painter
Taddeo Gaddi
Taddeo Gaddi
Italian artist
Lippi, Filippino: The Meeting of Joachim and Anne Outside the Golden Gate of Jerusalem
Filippino Lippi
Italian painter
Bernardino Luini
Italian painter
“St. Martin Abandoning His Arms,” detail from fresco series by Simone Martini, c. 1325–26; in the lower Church of San Francesco, Assisi, Italy
Simone Martini
Italian painter
Leonardo da Vinci: self-portrait
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Italian artist
Venus of Urbino by Titian
Titian
Italian painter
Tintoretto: Last Supper
Tintoretto
Italian painter
Raphael: The Grand Duke's Madonna
Raphael
Italian painter and architect
Arrival of Cardinal Francesco Gonzaga, fresco by Andrea Mantegna, completed 1474; in the Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, Italy.
Andrea Mantegna
Italian artist
Sandro Botticelli: Birth of Venus
Sandro Botticelli
Italian painter
Fra Angelico: Madonna of Humility
Fra Angelico
Italian painter

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