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Fiorenzo di Lorenzo (c.
1440 -
1522),
Italian painter, of the
Umbrian school, lived and worked at
Perugia, where most of his authentic works are still preserved in the
Pinacoteca.
There is probably no other Italian master of importance of whose life and work so little is known. In fact the whole edifice that modern scientific criticism has built around his name is based on a single signed and dated picture (1487) in the
Pinacoteca of Perugia--a niche with
lunette, two wings and
predella--and on the documentary evidence that he was decemvir of that city in
1472, in which year he entered into a contract to paint an altar-piece for
Santa Maria Nuova--the pentatych of the
Madonna and Saints--now in the Pinacoteca.
Of his birth and death and pupilage nothing is known, and
Vasari doesn't 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 wasn't particularly distinguished in his calling, but held the art in great veneration and highly honoured the men who excelled therein. Certain it's that the early works both of Perugino and of
Pinturicchio show certain mannerisms which point towards Fiorenzos influence, if not to his direct teaching.
The list of some fifty pictures which modern critics have ascribed to Fiorenzo includes works of such widely varied character that one can hardly be surprised to find great divergence of opinion as regards the masters under whom Fiorenzo is supposed to have studied.
Pisanello,
Verrocchio,
Benozzo Gozzoli,
Antonio Pollaiuolo,
Benedetto Bonfigli,
Mantegna,
Squarcione,
Filippo Lippi,
Signorelli and
Ghirlandajo have all been credited with this distinguished pupil, who was the most typical
Umbrian painter that stands between the primitives and Perugino; but the probability is that he studied under Bonfigli and was indirectly influenced by Gozzoli.
Fiorenzo's authentic works are remarkable for their sense of space and for the expression of that peculiar clear, soft atmosphere which is so marked a feature in the work of Perugino. But Fiorenzo has an intensity of feeling and a power of expressing character which are far removed from the somewhat affected grace of Perugino. Of the forty-five pictures bearing Fiorenzos name in the Pinacoteca of Perugia, the eight charming St Bernardino panels are so different from his wellauthenticated works, so Florentine in conception and movement, that the Perugians authorship is very questionable. On the other hand the beautiful
Nativity, the
Adoration of the Magi, and the
Adoration of the Shepherds in. the same gallery, may be accepted as the work of his hand, as also the fresco of
SS. Romano and Rocco at the church of S. Francesco at
Deruta. The
National Gallery, London, the Berlin and the Frankfort museums contain each a Madonna and Child ascribed to the master, but the attribution is in each case open to doubt.
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