1412
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From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Praying Prophet is a 1412 by Lorenzo Monaco, a Renaissance work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This painting shows a figure with gray hair and a red robe, sitting inside a bright gold frame. The person’s hands are pressed together in prayer. Around them, swirling red, blue, and green leaves and faces peek out from the edges like decorations. The gold background and bold colors make it look like a page from a fancy book. This style was common in religious art from the 1400s. Next, look up Renaissance to see how this fits into a bigger art movement.
Lorenzo Monaco was a Sienese painter and miniaturist of the late Gothic to early Renaissance age, active principally in Florence.
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