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 ( 1440 – 1522) was an Italian painter, of the Umbrian school. He lived and worked at Perugia, where most of his authentic works are still preserved in the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria.

Of his birth, death and pupilage, little is known: he may have been trained in the circles of Niccolò Alunno, Benedetto Bonfigli and Bartolomeo Caporali. Documentary evidence shows that he was decemvir of Perugia and, In the same year, he entered into a contract to paint an altarpiece for the church of Santa Maria Nuova, the pentaptych of the Madonna and Saints. a Pieta above the door of the Sala di Fiorenzo in Perugia (1472 - now attributed to Pintoricchio), a fresco of Saints Romano and Rocco in the Church of San Francesco in Deruta (1477-8, now attributed to Perugino), an Annunciation fresco on the outside of the Portiuncula at Assisi (1486 - now attributed to Perugino or his workshop), and two frescoes in the church of Santa Maria di Monteluce (1491 and ca. 1499). It is certain that the early works of both Perugino and Pinturicchio show certain mannerisms which point towards Fiorenzo's influence, if not to his direct teaching.

The list of fifty pictures which have been 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 suggested.

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