Lorenzo Lotto
Lorenzo Lotto
Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480 – 1556) was a Northern Italian painter draughtsman and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school. He painted mainly altarpieces, religious subjects and portraits. While he was active during the High Renaissance, he already constitutes, through his nervous and eccentric posings and distortions, a transitional stage to the first Florentine and Roman Mannerists of the 16th century.
Born in Venice, he worked in Treviso (1503–1506), the Marches (1506–1508), in Rome (1508–1510), Bergamo (1513–1525), in Venice (1525–1549), Ancona (1549) and finally as a Franciscan lay brother in Loreto (1549–1556).
In 1508 he began the Recanati polyptych altarpiece for the church of S Domenico. This two-tiered, rather conventional painted polyptych consists of six panels. His portrait Young Man against a White Curtain (1508) is a famous painting from this period (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
At the end of his life it became increasingly difficult for him 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. 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.
Self portrait
Oil on canvas ▼
Portrait of a young man, 1505
Oil on wood
Galleria degli Uffizi
Florence, Italy ▼
Allegory, 1505
Oil on wood
The National Gallery of Art
Washington DC, USA ▼
Maiden’s dream, 1505
Oil on wood
The National Gallery of Art
Washington DC, USA ▼
Portrait of a young man against a white curtain, 1508
Oil on wood
Kunsthistorisches Museum
Vienna, Austria ▼
Susanna and the elders, 1517
Oil on wood
Galleria degli Uffizi
Florence, Italy ▼
San Bernandino altarpiece, 1521
Oil on wood
S. Bernandino in Pignolo, Bergamo, Italy ▼
Christ taking leave of His Mother, 1521
Oil on canvas
Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany ▼
St. Catherine, 1522
Oil on wood
The National Gallery of Art
Washington DC, USA ▼
Portrait of Messer Marsilio and his wife, 1523
Oil on canvas
Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain ▼
The nativity, 1523
Oil on wood
The National Gallery of Art
Washington DC, USA ▼
The legend of St. Barbara, 1524
Fresco
Oratory of the Suardi Family
Trescore, Italy ▼
An architect, 1530
Oil on canvas
Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany ▼
Portrait of a young man with a book, 1526
Oil on wood
Sforza Castle, Civiche Raccolte d’Arte
Milan, Italy ▼
A young man, 1526
Oil on canvas, Gemaldegalerie
Berlin, Germany ▼
The annunciation, 1527
Oil on canvas
Pinacoteca Comunale
Recanati (Macerata), Italy ▼
Portrait of Andrea Odoni, 1527
Oil on canvas
Hampton Court, Royal Collection, UK ▼
The Angel of the Annunciation, 1530
Oil on wood
Pinacoteca Comunale
Jesi (Ancona), Italy ▼
Lady with a drawing of Lucretia, 1533
Oil on wood
National Gallery, London ▼
Christ and the adulteress, 1530
Oil on canvas
Louvre Museum, Paris, France ▼
St. Lucia before the Judge, 1532
Oil on wood
Pinacoteca Comunale
Jesi (Ancona), Italy ▼
Madonna with Child, St. Catherine, and St. Jacob, 1533
Oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum
Vienna, Austria ▼
Madonna and Child with St. Jerome, St. Joseph and St. Anne, 1534
Oil on canvas, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy ▼
Husband and wife, 1534
Oil on canvas
The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia ▼
Sleeping Apollo, Muses and Fama
Oil on canvas
Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary ▼
The carrying of the Cross
Oil on wood
Louvre Museum, Paris, France ▼
Venus and Cupid
Oil on canvas
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA ▼
