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The castle of San Lorenzo was built on top of a high reef, in a position that dominated the entrance of the Chagres River. [2] In 1670, buccaneer Henry Morgan ordered an attack that left Fort San Lorenzo in ruins. He invaded Panama City the following year, using San Lorenzo as his base of operations.
Basilica of San Lorenzo 1523–1559: Florence Plans for new City fortifications 1528–1529: Florence Tribune for the Relics Basilica of San Lorenzo 1531–1532: Florence Piazza del Campidoglio complex Capitoline Hill 1536–1546: Rome Palazzo Farnese 1546: Rome Plans for St. Peter's Basilica (especially for the dome) 1546–1564: Rome Plans ...
The Miracle of the Cross at the Bridge of S. Lorenzo (Italian: Miracolo della Croce caduta nel canale di San Lorenzo) is a tempera-on-canvas painting by Italian Renaissance artist Gentile Bellini, dating from c. 1500. It is now housed in the Gallerie dell'Accademia, in Venice.
The two painters frescoed the Abbey of San Lorenzo in Doliolo, [2] the Church of San Domenico, and the old Cathedral of Saint Maria della Pieve in San Severino. Some of their paintings are displayed in the Pinacoteca Civica Padre Pietro Tacchi Venturi in San Severino Marche, including the Mystical Marriage of St Catherine by Lorenzo alone in 1400.
The Medici Chapel at San Lorenzo is the best example of the integration of the artist's sculptural and architectural vision since Michelangelo created both the major sculptures as well as the interior plan. [10] Ironically, the most prominent tombs are those of two rather obscure Medici who died young, a son and grandson of Lorenzo il Magnifico.
Giorgio Vasari [a] (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer who is best known for his work Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of Western art-historical writing, and still much cited in modern biographies of the many Italian Renaissance artists he covers ...
Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480 – 1556/57) was an Italian Renaissance painter, draughtsman, and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school, though much of his career was spent in other north Italian cities. He painted mainly altarpieces, religious subjects and portraits.
The San Lorenzo Triptych is a tempera-on-panel altarpiece by the Italian Renaissance artist Giovanni Bellini and others. Its central panel of Saint Lawrence measures 127 by 48 cm, its lunette of the Madonna and Child 59 by 170 cm and its side panels of John the Baptist and Antony of Padua 103 by 45 cm each.