Lorenzo Monaco employs delicately patterned forms that…

Lorenzo Monaco employs delicately patterned forms that are both decorative and naturalistic in the “Monte Oliveto Altarpiece,” executed in 1410, and The Coronation of the Virgin, characterized by a great number of saints and brilliant colors and painted in 1414.

(Contemporary documents record Lorenzo’s activity as a miniaturist during the early fifteenth century, but scholars can ascribe to him with certainty no paintings of this kind.)