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LOMI— LORENZETTL 89 LOMI. [Gehtilebchi.] LONGHI, Luc A, h. at Havenxia, 1507, d, Aug. 12, 1580. Bolognese School. He belongs to the quattro- cento painters in style, though of so eomparatlYely late a period, having lived chiefly in and about Bavenna. Lanzi compares him with Innocenzo da Imola, admitting his inferiority to that painter. The churches at Ea- venna, Ferrara, and Mantua, contain several of his works. He was also a good portrait-painter; Vasari notices Longhi as a graceful painter, espe- daUy in this department, and states that had he had larger experience, he would have been one of the best pain- ters of his time. Francesco Longhi was his son. Works, Bavenna, San Yitale, Ma- donna and Saints : refectory of the Gamaldolese, tlie Marriage at Cana: San Benedetto, the Circumcision. LOBENZETTI, or di Lobenzo, Ambbooio, b. about 1265, or more pro- bably much later, about 1800; he is first noticed in the Sienese records, in 1323 ; (L about 1348. Sienese School. Painted somewhat in the style of Due- do, but with more freedom from the Byzantine taste than is displayed by that painter. In the time of Loren- zetti, the taste for allegory was exces- sive, and his most remarkable works, in the public palace at Siena, and in the Sala de' Nove, are of this class, exe- cuted in 1337-40, and inscribed, Am- brosius Laurentii hie pinxit vtrinque, Giotto, Simone di Martino, and Taddeo Gaddi executed similar works ; but those by Lorenzetti are the most re- markable of this period. They are mond, civil, and political ; embodying the philosophy of Aristotle : the whole with a view of inculcating good govern- ment ; the subjects of the three great schemes of the Sala being Justice, Concord, and Peace, showing their consequences, and the consequences of their absence — ^the effects of good and bad Governments. The other im- portant works of this painter, so highly spoken of by Lorenzo Ghiberti, have entirely perished. There are further, at Siena, in the Academy, the Annun- ciation : at Florence, in the Academy, the Presentation in the Temple, 1342 : and at Berlin, in the Gallery, five pic- tures attributed to Ambrogio. LOBENZETTI, Pietro, called also PiETRO DI Lorenzo, and through a mistake of Yasari's, Laxtrati, painted 1305, d, about 1350. Sienese School. He was the elder brother of Ambrogio Lorenzetti, and worked conjointly with him, and followed in the steps of Ducdo di Buoninsegna. Pietro's figures are greatly praised by Yasari, grand and expressive, rich and graceful in costume and ornament His single groups, in his representations of the Fathers in the Desert (engraved by Lasinio), are executed in the most varied manner as regards the occupations or characters of the several hermits, and with, per- haps, as much grace and feeling in detail as the style of the time admitted: in the composition he adheres to the old Byzantine conventional type; the perspective is altogether false, the groups independent and wholly uncon- nected, though crowded together. The whole is utterly without taste as a com- position, and many allowances for the conventionalities of the time must be made, in order to enable these frescoes to be looked at with ordinary patience and a due appreciation of their general merits ; compared with the other earlier works of the Campo Santo, they are important. Some paintings, executed by Pietro in the cathedral of Arezzo, were in part, and in the opinion of Yasari, the best up to their time in Italy, but, with the fate of nearly all the works of Pietro, they have perished. Works, Pisa, Campo Santo, the Fathers and Hermits in the Wilder-