# Prayer Book of Lorenzo de' Medici [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [FRANCESCO DI ANTONIO DEL CHIERICO]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Manuscript \(Ashb. 1574\) ## Commentary Prayer Book of Lorenzo de' Medici 1458 Manuscript \(Ashb. 1574\) Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence This masterpiece of the Florentine manuscripts was made for the outstanding figure of the Florentine Renaissance, Lorenzo de' Medici. The picture shows the page \(folio 14\) facing the Annunciation page with a frame of similar character. The page is the introduction to Mary's Officine, the prayers offered to Mary. The initial D therefore depicts the Madonna and Child. ## Related artworks - [Cristoforo Landino: Disputationes camaldulenses]() - [Petrarch: Triumphs, Songs]() - [Poggio Bracciolini: De varietate fortunae]() - [Prayer Book of Lorenzo de' Medici]() - [Psalter]() - [Urbino Bible]() - [Urbino Bible]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()