Movinq beyond Giotto’s heritage in Florence was not eas y，and no one understood that as well as Gior-aio Vasari．Monumentality,order and proportions，the sculpted power of the figures，the ample breadthof the scenes and even the technicaI excellence and“industrial”organization Of artistic production werethe manv，and all very important things Giotto di Bondone had bequeathed to his Florentine pupils andto the pupils of those pupils．

Movinq beyond Giotto’s heritage in Florence was not eas y，and no one understood that as well as Gior-aio Vasari．Monumentality,order and proportions，the sculpted power of the figures，the ample breadthof the scenes and even the technicaI excellence and“industrial”organization Of artistic production werethe manv，and all very important things Giotto di Bondone had bequeathed to his Florentine pupils andto the pupils of those pupils．

But was there not a risk that alI this would become academia and craft?A conservative though mostnoble craft?There was indeed that risk and late fourteenth centu ry Florentine painting is there as proof．Indeed，iudging from the average level Of the era’S eminent a rtists(such as Jacopo di Cione，Giovannidel Biondo。r NiCC016 di Pietro Gerini，without excluding Agnolo Gaddi himself)，it would be difficultto prefigu re the glorious future developments．Vasa ri，who was fully aware 0ffhe reg ressive and aca。demic drift produced by Giotto’s legacy,defined the turning point，the era offhe providential renewal，as fhe start of fhe fifteenth century．Those were the years Of Starnina and Lorenzo Monaco when theseason of “attitudes and feelings“burst onto the scene of Florentine painting．And Vasari|S expressionis both charming and amazingly effective．

Antolnio Paolucci

Foreword

Edoardo Speranza

Exhibitions in Florence：A Living Tradition

Franca Falietti

Exhibitions at the Galleria dell’Accademia：

Motivations，Methods and Goals

Essays

Angelo Tartuferi

Lorenzo Monaco：

Nores on an Exhibition

Roberta Melis

Lorenzo Monaco，Santa Ma ria

degli Angeli and the Camaldolese

VisuaI Culture

Anneke de Vries and Victor M．Schmidt

The Coronation of the Vi rgin

for the Main Altar Of Santa Ma ria

degli Angeli：Iconography and Purpose

Note on an Ea rly Addition to the

Coronation of the Virgin in the Uffizi

by Maria Sframeli

Luciano Bellosi

Lorenzo Monaco：The Later Years

Eding Skaug

Notes on the Punched Decoration

in Lorenzo Monaco’s Panel Paintings

Laurence Kanter

Lorenzo Monaco and Fra Angelico

Daniela Parenfi

The World Of Lorenzo Monaco：

The Rise Of the Late Gothic

in Florentine Painting

Gaudenz Freuler

Lorenzo Monaco，Illuminator：

The Ea rly Days

Ada Labriola

Lorenzo Monaco，Illuminator：

Between 1410 and His FinaI Years

(with some considerations on

contemporary Florentine miniaturesJ

Catalogue

PA JNTlNGS

MlNIATURES

WORKS JN THE GALLERIA

DELL’ACCADEMlA BEYOND

THE EXHIBlTION

References

Document Appendix

prepared by Alberto Lenza

Bibliog raphy

prepared by Ada Labriola