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Lorenzo Lotto
Italian Renaissance painter - draftsman
born circa 1480 - died 1556
Also known as: Laurent Lotto, Laurentius Lotus, Lorenzo Lotti.
Collaborated with: Girolamo da Santacroce (c.1480-1556) in 1542.
Employer of: Raffaello da Montelupo (1504-1566) from 1523 to 1527.
LOTTO, LORENZO (c. 1480-1556), Italian painter, is variously stated to
have been born at Bergamo [EN], Venice and Treviso [EN], between 1475
and 1480, but a document published by Dr Bampo proves that he was born
in Venice, and it is to be gathered from his will that 1480 was probably
the year of his birth. Overshadowed by the genius of his three great
contemporaries, Titian, Giorgione and Palma, he had been comparatively
neglected by art historians until Mr Bernard Berenson devoted to him an
essay in constructive art criticism, which not only restores to him his
rightful position among the great masters of the Renaissance, but also
throws clear light upon the vexed question of his painteric descent.
Earlier authorities have made Lotto a pupil of Giovanni Bellini (Morelli), of Previtali (Crowe and Cavalcaselle), of Leonardo da Vinci (Lomazzo), whilst others discovered in
his work the influences of Cima, Carpaccio, Dürer, Palma and Francia. Mr
Berenson has, however, proved that he was the pupil of Alvise Vivarini,
whose religious severity and asceticism remained paramount in his work,
even late in his life, when he was attracted by the rich glow of
Giorgione's and Titian's color. What distinguishes Lotto from his more
famous contemporaries is his psychological insight into character and
his personal vision's unconventionality, which is sufficient to account
for the comparative neglect suffered by him when his art is placed
beside the more typical art of Titian and Giorgione, the supreme
expression of the character of the period.
View artworks’ titles of oil painting old master Lotto Lorenzo Italy
1480-1556
0 Deposition 1512
0 Madonna and Child with Saints 1521 II
0 Madonna and Child with Sts Peter Christine Liberale and Jerome WGA
0 Madonna of the Rosary 1539
0 Madonna with the Child and Saints 1516
0 Presentation on the Temple 1554 5
0 St Lucy before the Judge 1532
0 Stories of St Barbara 1524 supply paintings Italian
reproduction Lotto Lorenzo
0 The Alms of St Anthony 1542
0 Vestiture of St Bridget 1524
3 Lotto Lorenzo Man with a Golden Paw c1527 detail1
4 Angel Annunciating 1527
4 Architect c1535
4 Bishop Bernardo de Rossi WGA
4 Christ Taking Leave of his Mother 1521 detail1 |
