For Gillian Ayres, screen printing was 'just another medium'. Like Hodgkin, Ayres sees herself primarily as a painter, and she revels in making energetic works that often feature organic shapes in abstraction with contrasting elements that are beautifully detailed. Here the title reference to Lorenzo the Magnificent is a tongue-in-cheek nod to the Italian Lorenzo de' Medici who lived in Florence in the 14th century and was an important patron of Italian Renaissance art. Indeed, the red shape at the top of this print, which looks a bit like a collar, is in fact an upside-down version of the head gear worn by Niccolò da Tolentino in Uccello's famous Battle of San Romano which Ayres would have seen when visiting the National Gallery in London and which Lorenzo appropriated for the Medici palace.