Lorenzo di Credi worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Lorenzo di Credi as Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor (c.1459-1537).
Lorenzo di Credi was born at Florence in 1459. His recorded nationality is Duchy of Florence.
This was the period in which the artist became an individual with a signature, a reputation and a price.
He worked as painter, sculptor and draftsperson.
Among his best-known works are Adoration of the Shepherds, The Annunciation and Venus. An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
That the work was made in Duchy of Florence shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Lorenzo di Credi died in 1537, aged 78. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Adoration of the Shepherds
- Notable work: The Annunciation
- Notable work: Venus
- Notable work: Lady of the Jasmin
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