Lorenzo was influenced by Taddeo Gaddi, Giotto's godson, friend, pupil, and assistant.

His greatest work is this large Uffizi altar-piece--he painted nothing but altar-pieces--depicting the Coronation of the Virgin: a great gay scene of splendour, containing pretty angels who must have been the delight of children in church.

The predella--and here let me advise the visitor never to overlook the predellas, where the artist often throws off formality and allows his more natural feelings to have play, almost as though he painted the picture for others and the predella for himself--is peculiarly interesting.

Look, at the left, at the death of an old Saint attended by monks and nuns, whose grief is profound.

One other good Lorenzo is here, an "Adoration of the Magi," No.