Lorenzetti

He would take lunch breaks at the National Gallery with Velázquez, Duccio, or the Lorenzetti brothers, sticking with the same piece of art for months until he felt it was time to move on.

“The squat mimics so many physiological tasks of our daily living,” Dr. Lorenzetti said.

“It is really a whole body exercise,” said Silvio Rene Lorenzetti, the director of the Performance Sports division of the Swiss Federal Institute of Sport in Magglingen.

Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Annunciation, 1344, originally in the town hall of Siena, is a very early example of the geometrical representation of space.

Lorenzetti portrays the moment when Mary becomes pregnant.