Pietro Lorenzetti

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Beata Umilta Transports Bricks to the Monastery(c.1341) Oil on wood, 45 x 32 cm Uffizi, Florence

Pietro Lorenzetti (or Pietro Laurati) (c. 1280 - 1348) was a Sienese painter.

Lorenzetti was active between approximately 1306 and 1345. He was born and died in Siena. He was influenced by Giovanni Pisano. He and his brother, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, helped introduce naturalism into Sienese art. Many of his religious works are in churches in Siena.

Giorgio Vasari includes a biography of Lorenzetti in his Lives.