Pietro Lorenzetti

Pietro Lorenzetti (c. 1280 in Siena, † probably 1348 ) was an Italian painter and older brother of Ambrogio Lorenzetti.

He is the successor of Giotto, as he completed the frescoes of the lower church of the Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi from about 1325. In the Palazzo Pubblico of Siena, he painted with his brother Ambrogio three walls of the Sala dei Nove in a major order from. The frescoes there put in politically pedantic manner allegorically The good and the bad government, with its impact on the population in urban and rural areas is ( painted 1337-1339, in the lower section now badly damaged ).

Models were for him, inter alia, Duccio, Giotto and Giovanni Pisano. From Duccio, he took the figure of representation such as in the altarpiece in the parish church of Arezzo, Giotto, he learned spatial representation and reduction of Pisano and the passion of the lecture.

Since after 1348, any news about the Lorenzetti brothers are missing, they were most likely victims of the plague in 1348.