Although Lorenzo Monaco was primarily a painter of panels and frescoes, he was also remarkable as an illuminator. He learned the craft of manuscript illumination in the scriptorium of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Florence under the tutelage of Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci. During the period of Lorenzo Monaco's residence at the Camaldolese monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli, the scriptorium there was engaged in the writing and illumination of two large series of antiphonaries, and a set of graduals for their sister house of San Michele a Murano. Both volumes of the latter and the first three volumes of the former was painted by Don Silvestro, and two other volumes of the antiphonaries had been contracted to secular artists for illumination. With the arrival of Lorenzo Monaco, however, the completion of these books seems to have been entrusted exclusively to him.

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	Antiphonary (Choir Book 5) 1394 Tempera and gold on parchment Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence	900*913 True Color 185 Kb
	Antiphonary (Choir Book 5) 1394 Tempera and gold on parchment Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence	900*955 True Color 137 Kb
	Antiphonary (Cod. Cor. 1, folio 3) 1396 Tempera and gold on parchment, 463 x 480 mm Musée du Louvre, Paris	1050*1000 True Color 210 Kb
	Antiphonary (Cod. Cor. 1, folio 63) 1396 Tempera and gold on parchment, 223 x 204 mm Staatliche Museen, Berlin	890*991 True Color 194 Kb
	Antiphonary (Cod. Cor. 1, folio 102) 1396 Tempera and gold on parchment, 343 x 302 mm Staatliche Museen, Berlin	900*1022 True Color 221 Kb
	Antiphonary (Cod. Cor. 1, folio 111v) 1396 Tempera and gold on parchment, 340 x 378 mm Biblioteca Apostolica, Vatican	1006*900 True Color 157 Kb
	Antiphonary (Cod. Cor. 8, folio 102) 1395-98 Tempera and gold on parchment, 215 x 163 mm (initial) Staatliche Museen, Berlin	1011*1000 True Color 211 Kb
	Antiphonary (Cod. Cor. 8, folio 134) 1395-98 Tempera and gold on parchment, 344 x 414 mm National Gallery of Art, Washington	900*988 True Color 203 Kb
	Antiphonary (Cod. Cor. 7, folio 124v) 1406 Tempera and gold on parchment, 315 x 265 mm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York	700*833 True Color 184 Kb
	The Temptation of Christ c. 1410 Ink on parchment, 120 x 219 mm Musée du Louvre, Paris	1102*600 True Color 141 Kb
	Antiphonary (Cod. Cor. 3, folio 59) c. 1410 Tempera and gold on parchment, mounted on panel, 402 x 327 mm Bernard H. Breslauer, New York	750*927 True Color 186 Kb
	Gradual (Cod. H 74, folio 43r) c. 1410 Tempera and gold on parchment, 131 x 129 mm National Gallery of Art, Washington	800*854 True Color 164 Kb
	Gradual (Cod. H 74, folio 122v) c. 1410 Tempera and gold on parchment, 168 x 160 mm Museum of Art, Cleveland	800*833 True Color 166 Kb