Lorenzo Lotto
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Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480 – 1556) was a Northern Italian
Italy
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 painter
Painting
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 draughtsman and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school
Venetian school (art)
-Context:In the 15th century Venetian painting developed through influences from the Paduan School and Antonello da Messina, who introduced the oil painting technique of Early Netherlandish painting. It is typified by a warm colour scale and a picturesque use of colour...

. He painted mainly altarpieces, religious subjects and portraits. While he was active during the High Renaissance
High Renaissance
The expression High Renaissance, in art history, is a periodizing convention used to denote the apogee of the visual arts in the Italian Renaissance...

, he already constitutes, through his nervous and eccentric posings and distortions, a transitional stage to the first Florentine and Roman Mannerists
Mannerism
Mannerism is a period of European art that emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520. It lasted until about 1580 in Italy, when a more Baroque style began to replace it, but Northern Mannerism continued into the early 17th century throughout much of Europe...

 of the 16th century.

Biography

Born in Venice
Venice
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, he worked in Treviso
Treviso
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 (1503–1506), in the Marche
Marche
The population density in the region is below the national average. In 2008, it was 161.5 inhabitants per km2, compared to the national figure of 198.8. It is highest in the province of Ancona , and lowest in the province of Macerata...

 (1506–1508), in Rome
Rome
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 (1508–1510), Bergamo
Bergamo
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 (1513–1525), in Venice (1525–1549), Ancona
Ancona
Ancona is a city and a seaport in the Marche region, in central Italy, with a population of 101,909 . Ancona is the capital of the province of Ancona and of the region....

 (1549) and finally as a Franciscan lay brother in Loreto
Loreto (AN)
Loreto is a hilltown and comune of the Italian province of Ancona, in the Marche. It is mostly famous as the seat of the Basilica della Santa Casa, a popular Catholic pilgrimage site.-Location:...

 (1549–1556).

Apprenticeship

There is almost no information about his training. As a Venetian he was influenced by Giovanni Bellini
Giovanni Bellini
Giovanni Bellini was an Italian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters. His father was Jacopo Bellini, his brother was Gentile Bellini, and his brother-in-law was Andrea Mantegna. He is considered to have revolutionized Venetian painting, moving it...

 as he had a good knowledge of contemporary Venetian painting. Though Bellini was doubtless not his teacher, the influence is clear in his early painting Virgin and Child with St. Jerome (1506) (National Gallery of Scotland
National Gallery of Scotland
The National Gallery of Scotland, in Edinburgh, is the national art gallery of Scotland. An elaborate neoclassical edifice, it stands on The Mound, between the two sections of Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens...

, Edinburgh). However, in his portraits and in his early painting Allegory of Virtue and Vice
Allegory of Virtue and Vice (Lotto)
The Allegory of Virtue and Vice is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance painter Lorenzo Lotto, dating to 1505. It is housed in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, United States.-History:...

 (1505) (National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden is a national art museum, located on the National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW, in Washington, DC...

, Washington) he shows the influence of Giorgione
Giorgione
Giorgione was a Venetian painter of the High Renaissance in Venice, whose career was cut off by his death at a little over thirty. Giorgione is known for the elusive poetic quality of his work, though only about six surviving paintings are acknowledged for certain to be his work...

's Naturalism. As he grew older his style changed, perhaps evolving, from a detached Giorgionesque classicism, to a more vibrant dramatic setpiece, more reminiscent of his contemporary from Parma
Parma
Parma is a city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna famous for its ham, its cheese, its architecture and the fine countryside around it. This is the home of the University of Parma, one of the oldest universities in the world....

, Correggio
Antonio da Correggio
Antonio Allegri da Correggio , usually known as Correggio, was the foremost painter of the Parma school of the Italian Renaissance, who was responsible for some of the most vigorous and sensuous works of the 16th century...

.

Treviso (1503-1506)

Lotto soon left Venice. The competition for a young painter would have been too great with established names such as Giorgione
Giorgione
Giorgione was a Venetian painter of the High Renaissance in Venice, whose career was cut off by his death at a little over thirty. Giorgione is known for the elusive poetic quality of his work, though only about six surviving paintings are acknowledged for certain to be his work...

, Palma the Elder and certainly with Titian
Titian
Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488/1490 – 27 August 1576 better known as Titian was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near...

. Nevertheless, Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, writer, historian, and architect, who is famous today for his biographies of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.-Biography:...

 mentions in the third part of his book Vite that Lotto was a friend of Palma the Elder.

In Treviso, a prospering town within the domain of the republic of Venice
Republic of Venice
The Republic of Venice or Venetian Republic was a state originating from the city of Venice in Northeastern Italy. It existed for over a millennium, from the late 7th century until 1797. It was formally known as the Most Serene Republic of Venice and is often referred to as La Serenissima, in...

, he came under the patronage of bishop Bernardo de' Rossi
Bernardo de' Rossi
Bernardo de' Rossi was an Italian bishop and patron of the arts.-Biography:The son of a feudal family of the area of Parma, at a young age he received the archdiaconate of Padua and the Abbey of St. Crisogonus in Zadar. In 1488, thanks to the support of the Republic of Venice, he became Bishop of...

. The already mentioned painting Allegory of Virtue and Vice
Allegory of Virtue and Vice (Lotto)
The Allegory of Virtue and Vice is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance painter Lorenzo Lotto, dating to 1505. It is housed in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, United States.-History:...

 was intended as an allegorical cover of his portrait (1505) of the bishop (now in National Museum of Capodimonte in Naples), who had survived an assassination attempt. The painting St. Jerome in the Desert (1500 or 1506) (Louvre
Louvre
The Musée du Louvre – in English, the Louvre Museum or simply the Louvre – is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement...

, Paris) shows his youthful inexperience as a draughtsman, however the dramatic rocky landscape is accentuated by the red garment of the saint. At the same time he gives an early impression of his skill as a miniaturist.

He painted his first altarpieces for the parish church San Cristina al Tiverone (1505) and the baptistery of the Cathedral of Asolo
Asolo
Asolo is a town and comune in the Veneto Region of Northern Italy. It is known as "The Pearl of the province of Treviso", and also as "The City of a Hundred Horizons" for its mountain settings.-History:...

 (1506), both still on display in those churches.

Recanati (1506-1508) and Rome (1508-1510)

In 1508 he began the Recanati Polyptych
Recanati Polyptych
The Recanati Polyptych is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Lorenzo Lotto, executed in 1506-1508 and housed in the Civic Museum of Villa Colloredo Mels, Recanati, Italy. The work is dated and signed Laurent[ius] Lotus MDVIII.Lotto began to work on the piece in 1506 as a devotional for...

 altarpiece for the church of San Domenico. This two-tiered, rather conventional painted polyptych consists of six panels. His portrait Young Man against a White Curtain (c. 1506) is a painting from this period (Kunsthistorisches Museum
Kunsthistorisches Museum
The Kunsthistorisches Museum is an art museum in Vienna, Austria. Housed in its festive palatial building on Ringstraße, it is crowned with an octagonal dome...

, Vienna).
As he became a respected painter, he came to the attention of Bramante, the papal architect, who was passing through Loreto (a pilgrimage site near Recanati). Lorenzo Lotto was invited to Rome to decorate to papal apartments. Nothing however survives of his work, as they were destroyed a few years later. This was probably because he had imitated the style of Raphael
Raphael
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino , better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur...

, a rapidly rising star in the papal court. He had done this before in the Transfiguration in the Recanati polyptych.

The Marche (1511-1513) and Bergamo (1513-1525)

In 1511 he was at work for the confraternity of the Buon Gesù in Jesi
Jesi
thumb|250px|Teatro Pergolesi.Iesi is a town and comune of the province of Ancona in the Marche, Italy.It is an important industrial and artistic center in the floodplain on the left bank of the Esino river before its mouth on the Adriatic Sea.-History:Iesi was one of the last towns of the Umbri...

, painting an Entombment (Pinacoteca Civica, Jesi). Soon after, he was painting altarpieces in Recanati, a Transfiguration (c. 1512, now in the Pinacoteca Comunale, Recanati) and a fresco St Vincent Ferrer for the church San Domenico.

His work in Bergamo, the westernmost town of the Venetian republic, and surrounding areas was to prove his best and most productive artistic period. He received many commissions from wealthy merchants, well-educated professionals and local aristocrats. He had become a rich colourist and an experienced draughtsman. He developed the concept of the psychological portrait, revealing the thoughts and emotions of his subjects. In this he was continuing the tradition started by Antonello da Messina
Antonello da Messina
Antonello da Messina, properly Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio was an Italian painter from Messina, Sicily, active during the Italian Renaissance...

. A good example is his Portrait of a Young Man with a Book (now in the Accademia
Accademia
The Accademia is a museum gallery of pre-19th century art in Venice, northern Italy. Situated on the south bank of the Grand Canal, within the sestiere of Dorsoduro, it gives its name to one of the three bridges across the canal, the Ponte dell'Accademia, and to the boat landing station for the...

, Venice).

He started in 1513 with a monumental altarpiece Pala Martinengo in the Dominican church of S Stefano in Bergamo. This altarpiece was commissioned by Count Alessandro Martinengo-Coleoni, grandson of the famous condottiere Bartolomeo Colleoni
Bartolomeo Colleoni
Bartolomeo Colleoni was a Venetian condottiero, who became Captain-General of the republic of Venice, where there is a famous statue showing him on horseback.-Biography:...

. It would be finished in 1516. This altarpiece shows us the influence of Bramante and Giorgione
Giorgione
Giorgione was a Venetian painter of the High Renaissance in Venice, whose career was cut off by his death at a little over thirty. Giorgione is known for the elusive poetic quality of his work, though only about six surviving paintings are acknowledged for certain to be his work...

. His next assignment was the decoration of the churches S Bernardino and S Alessandro in Colonna with frescoes and distemper paintings. He would finish five more altarpieces between 1521 and 1523.

In 1523 he went for a brief stay in the Marches, obtaining several commissions for altarpieces. He would paint these during his stay in Venice.

His next paintings are mostly wall paintings. In 1524 he painted a series of frescoes with the lives of saints (such as St. Clare) in the Suardi chapel in Trescore (near Bergamo). In the details he depicts scenes of every life, such as in the fresco Martyrdom of St. Claire. In the same fresco he portrays Christ with vines sprouting from his hands, illustrating the words of the New Testament: "I am the vine, you are the branches".

In 1524 he also painted the cartoons with Old Testament stories as models for the intarsia
Intarsia
Intarsia is a form of wood inlaying that is similar to marquetry. The term is also used for a similar technique used with small, highly polished stones set in a marble matrix .- History :...

 panels for the choir stalls of Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo.

More than twenty private paintings date from the same period. They are mostly of religious and pious subjects such as Madonnas or a Deposition, used for worship at home. They are painted in the Classical tradition, but Lotto adds a personal touch to the intense emotions. Using contrasting poses and opposing movement, he breaks the traditional symmetry of the Virgin surrounded by angels and saints.

Venice (1525-1532)

In Venice, Lotto first resided at the Dominican monastery of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, but he was forced to leave after a few months after a conflict with friar Damiano Zambelli, the intaglia artist. To cope with the many commissions he started to receive, he founded a workshop. He shipped five altarpieces for churches in the Marches and another one for the church S Maria Assunta in Celano (near Bergamo). Another altarpiece was for the Venetian church of S Maria dei Carmini, portraying St. Nicholas of Bari in Glory.

As Venice was a city of great wealth and as popularity increased, he received many orders for private paintings, including ten portraits, including Portrait of a Young Man (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin). His portrait of Andrea Odoni (Royal Art Collection, Hampton Court) (1527) would later influence the portrait of Jacopo Strada by Titian (1568) (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna). But in Venice he was overshadowed by his rival Titian
Titian
Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488/1490 – 27 August 1576 better known as Titian was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near...

, who dominated the artistic scene.

Venice, the Veneto and the Marche (1532-1556)

In this last period of his life, Lorenzo Lotto would frequently move from town to town, searching for patrons and commissions. In 1532 he went to Treviso. Next he spent about seven years in the Marche (Ancona, Macerata and Jesi), before returning to Venice in 1540. He moved again to Treviso in 1542 and back to Venice in 1545. Finally he went back to Ancona in 1549.

This was a productive period in his life, during which he painted several altarpieces and portraits.
At the end of his life, Lotto met increasing difficulties to earn a living. Furthermore, in 1550 one of his works had an unsuccessful auction in Ancona. As recorded in his personal account book, this deeply disillusioned him. As he had always been a deeply religious man, he entered in 1552 the Holy Sanctuary at Loreto, becoming a lay brother
Lay brother
In the most common usage, lay brothers are those members of Catholic religious orders, particularly of monastic orders, occupied primarily with manual labour and with the secular affairs of a monastery or friary, in contrast to the choir monks of the same monastery who are devoted mainly to the...

. During that time he decorated the basilica of S Maria and painted a Presentation in the Temple for the Palazzo Apostolico in Loreto. He died in 1556 and was buried, at his request, in a Dominican habit.

Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, writer, historian, and architect, who is famous today for his biographies of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.-Biography:...

 included Lotto's biography in the third volume of his book Vite. Lorenzo Lotto himself left many letters and a detailed notebook (Libro di spese diverse, 1538–1556), giving a certain insight in his life and work. His influence was felt by many painters, including probably Giovanni Busi.

Overview

During his lifetime, Lorenzo Lotto was a well-respected painter and certainly popular in Northern Italy. He is traditionally included in the Venetian School, but his independent career actually places him outside the Venetian art scene. He was certainly not as highly regarded in Venice as in the other towns were he worked. He had an own stylistic individuality, even an idiosyncratic style. After his death, he gradually became neglected and then almost forgotten. This could be attributed to the fact that his oeuvre now remains in lesser known churches or in provincial museums.

Thanks to the work of the art historian Bernard Berenson
Bernard Berenson
Bernard Berenson was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. He was a major figure in pioneering art attribution and therefore establishing the market for paintings by the "Old Masters".-Personal life:...

, he was rediscovered at the end of the 19th century. Since then, many monographs and several exhibitions have been dedicated to Lorenzo Lotto, such as the exhibition in Venice in 1953 and one in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA, in 1998.

Selected works

  • Madonna with Child, St. Peter of Verona and Donor (1503). National Museum of Capodimonte, Naples
  • Santa Cristina al Tiverone Altarpiece (c. 1504-1506). Church of Santa Cristina al Tiverone, Quinto di Treviso
    Quinto di Treviso
    Quinto di Treviso is a comune in the Province of Treviso in the Italian region Veneto, located about 25 km northwest of Venice and about 7 km southwest of Treviso....

    , Veneto
  • Allegory of Virtue and Vice
    Allegory of Virtue and Vice (Lotto)
    The Allegory of Virtue and Vice is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance painter Lorenzo Lotto, dating to 1505. It is housed in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, United States.-History:...

     (1505). National Gallery of Art
    National Gallery of Art
    The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden is a national art museum, located on the National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW, in Washington, DC...

    , Washington, USA
  • Allegory of Chastity (c. 1505). National Gallery of Art, Washington
  • Madonna with Child and Saints (c. 1505). National Gallery of Scotland
    National Gallery of Scotland
    The National Gallery of Scotland, in Edinburgh, is the national art gallery of Scotland. An elaborate neoclassical edifice, it stands on The Mound, between the two sections of Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens...

    , Edinburgh
    Edinburgh
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    , United Kingdom
  • Asolo Altarpiece (1506). Cathedral of Asolo, Veneto.
  • Recanati Polyptych
    Recanati Polyptych
    The Recanati Polyptych is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Lorenzo Lotto, executed in 1506-1508 and housed in the Civic Museum of Villa Colloredo Mels, Recanati, Italy. The work is dated and signed Laurent[ius] Lotus MDVIII.Lotto began to work on the piece in 1506 as a devotional for...

     (1506-1508). Civic Museum Villa Colloredo Mels, Recanati
    Recanati
    Recanati is a town and comune in the Province of Macerata, Marche region of Italy. Recanati was founded around 1150 AD from three pre-existing castles. In 1290 it proclaimed itself an independent republic and, in the 15th century, was famous for its international fair...

  • Young Man against a White Curtain (c. 1506). Kunsthistorisches Museum
    Kunsthistorisches Museum
    The Kunsthistorisches Museum is an art museum in Vienna, Austria. Housed in its festive palatial building on Ringstraße, it is crowned with an octagonal dome...

    , Vienna
  • Madonna with Child and Saints Flavian and Onuphrius (1508). Borghese Gallery, Rome
  • Transfiguration (1510-1512). Civic Museum Villa Colloredo Mels, Recanati
    Recanati
    Recanati is a town and comune in the Province of Macerata, Marche region of Italy. Recanati was founded around 1150 AD from three pre-existing castles. In 1290 it proclaimed itself an independent republic and, in the 15th century, was famous for its international fair...

  • Martinengo Altarpiece
    Martinengo Altarpiece
    The Martinengo Altarpiece is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance painter Lorenzo Lotto, finished in 1516. It is housed in the church of Santi Bartolomeo e Stefano, Bergamo, northern Italy.-History:...

     (1513-1516), Church of San Bartolomeo e Stefano, Bergamo
  • Susanna and the Elders
    Susanna and the Elders (Lotto)
    Susanna and the Elders is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Lorenzo Lotto, dating from 1517. It is housed in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence. The work has the signature LOTUS PICTOR 1517.-History:...

     (1517), Uffizi Gallery, Florence
  • Portrait of Lucina Brembati
    Portrait of Lucina Brembati
    The Portrait of Lucina Brembati is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance painter Lorenzo Lotto, dating to c. 1506. It is housed in the Accademia Carrara of Bergamo, northern Italy....

     (c. 1518). Accademia Carrara
    Accademia Carrara
    The Accademia Carrara is an art gallery and an academy of fine arts in Bergamo, Italy.-History:The origins of the art gallery lie with the Count Giacomo Carrara, a wealthy collector and patron of the arts, who left a generous legacy to the city of Bergamo at the end of the 18th century.After the...

    , Bergamo
  • Madonna with Child between Sts. Roch and Sebastian (c. 1518). National Gallery of Canada
    National Gallery of Canada
    The National Gallery of Canada , located in the capital city Ottawa, Ontario, is one of Canada's premier art galleries.The Gallery is now housed in a glass and granite building on Sussex Drive with a notable view of the Canadian Parliament buildings on Parliament Hill. The acclaimed structure was...

    , Ottawa
    Ottawa
    Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...

  • Santo Spirito Altarpiece (1521). Church of Santo Spirito, Bergamo
  • Adoration of the Child (1523). National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA
  • Christ Carrying the Cross (1526). Louvre
    Louvre
    The Musée du Louvre – in English, the Louvre Museum or simply the Louvre – is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement...

    , Paris
  • Portrait of Andrea Odoni
    Portrait of Andrea Odoni
    The Portrait of Andrea Odoni is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance painter Lorenzo Lotto, dating to 1527. It is housed in the Royal Collection of Windsor Castle, London, United Kingdom.-History:...

     (1527). Royal Collection
    Royal Collection
    The Royal Collection is the art collection of the British Royal Family. It is property of the monarch as sovereign, but is held in trust for her successors and the nation. It contains over 7,000 paintings, 40,000 watercolours and drawings, and about 150,000 old master prints, as well as historical...

    , London
  • Portrait of a Gentleman with Lion Paw (c. 1527). Kunsthistorisches Museum
    Kunsthistorisches Museum
    The Kunsthistorisches Museum is an art museum in Vienna, Austria. Housed in its festive palatial building on Ringstraße, it is crowned with an octagonal dome...

    , Vienna
  • Triumph of Chastity (c. 1530). Palazzo Pallavicini Rospigliosi, Rome
  • Venus and Cupid (c. 1530). Metropolitan Museum, New York
  • St. Lucy before the Judge (1532). Jesi, Pinacoteca comunale
  • The Sleeping Child Jesus with the Madonna, St. Joseph and St. Catherine of Alexandria (1533). Accademia Carrara
    Accademia Carrara
    The Accademia Carrara is an art gallery and an academy of fine arts in Bergamo, Italy.-History:The origins of the art gallery lie with the Count Giacomo Carrara, a wealthy collector and patron of the arts, who left a generous legacy to the city of Bergamo at the end of the 18th century.After the...

    , Bergamo
  • Portrait of a Lady as Lucretia (1533). National Gallery, London.
  • Madonna with Child and Two Donors (c. 1533-1535). Getty Center
    Getty Center
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    , Los Angeles
    Los Ángeles
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    , USA
  • Recanati Annunciation
    Recanati Annunciation
    The Recanati Annunciation is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Lorenzo Lotto, executed around 1534 and housed in the Civic Museum of Villa Colloredo Mels, Recanati, Italy.-History:...

     (c. 1534). Civic Museum Villa Colloredo Mels, Recanati
    Recanati
    Recanati is a town and comune in the Province of Macerata, Marche region of Italy. Recanati was founded around 1150 AD from three pre-existing castles. In 1290 it proclaimed itself an independent republic and, in the 15th century, was famous for its international fair...

  • Holy Family with SS Jerome, Anna and Joachim (1534). Uffizi, Florence
  • Holy Family with St. John the Baptist (c. 1536). Louvre, Paris
  • Pietà (1538-1545). Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
  • Portrait of a Young Man, Uffizi, Florence
  • Crucifixion, Church of Santa Maria in Telusiano, Monte San Giusto
    Monte San Giusto
    Monte San Giusto is a comune in the Province of Macerata in the Italian region Marche, located about 45 km south of Ancona and about 14 km southeast of Macerata...

  • Rosary Madonna (1539). Church of San Nicolò, Cingoli
    Cingoli
    Cingoli is a town and comune of the Marches, Italy, in the province of Macerata, about 27 km by road from the town of Macerata. It is the birthplace of Pope Pius VIII.-History:...

  • Altarpiece of the Halberd (c. 1539). Ancona
    Ancona
    Ancona is a city and a seaport in the Marche region, in central Italy, with a population of 101,909 . Ancona is the capital of the province of Ancona and of the region....

    , Pinacoteca Civica Francesco Podesti
  • Portrait of a Man (1541) National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
    Ottawa
    Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...

  • Bust of a Bearded Man (1541, ascribed). Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco
  • The Alms of Saint Anthony (1542). Church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice
  • Portrait of Laura da Pola (1543-1544). Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
  • Portrait of an Old Man with Gloves (c. 1543). Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
  • Madonna and four Saints (1546). Church of San Giacomo dall’Orio, Venice
  • Portrait of fra' Gregorio Belo da Vicenza (1548). Metropolitan Museum, New York
    New York
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  • Assumption (1550). church of San Francesco alle Scale
    San Francesco alle Scale
    San Francesco alle Scale is a church in Ancona, central Italy.-History:Sited at the top of a staircase leading to the eponymous square, the church was founded in 1323 by the Franciscans, and was originally dedicated to Santa Maria Maggiore...

    , Ancona
  • The Crossbowman (1551). Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome
  • Portrait of an Old man (c. 1552, ascribed). Hermitage Museum
    Hermitage Museum
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    , Saint Petersburg.
  • Presentation in the Temple (1552-1556). Palazzo Apostolico, Loreto
    Loreto
    -Places:*Loreto, Santiago del Estero, Argentina*Loreto , village and municipality in Misiones Province, Argentina*Loreto, Beni, Bolivia*Loreto , Brazil...


Sources

  • Benezit E. Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs; Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1976; ISBN 2-7000-0156-7 (in French)
  • Turner J. Grove Dictionary of Art
    Grove Dictionary of Art
    Grove Art Online, formerly The Dictionary of Art but usually known as The Grove Dictionary of Art, is a large encyclopedia of art, now part of the online reference publications of Oxford University Press, and previously a 34-volume printed encyclopedia when last published on paper in 1996...

    ; MacMIlllan Publishers Ltd, 1990; ISBN 1-884446-00-0
  • Ricketts Melissa - Maestros del Renacimiento (in Dutch Translation : Grote meesters uit de Renaissance; Rebo International BV, 2005 ISBN 90-5841-089-7)
  • Berenson, Bernard - Lorenzo Lotto; The Phaidon Press
  • Lorenzo Lotto: Rediscovered Master of the Renaissance, by David Alan Brown, Peter Humfrey, and Mauro Lucco, with contributions by Augusto Gentili et al. Washington, D.C.: Catalogue of the exhibition in the National Gallery of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
  • Humfrey, Peter - Lorenzo Lotto; New Haven, Yale University Press, 1997; ISBN 0-300-06905-7 (the first full-length study of Lorenzo Lotto since the monograph of Bernard Berenson)

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