Lorenzo Lotto was born in 1480 and died in 1556. He 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).
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 musea. Even the top musea of the world possess each only a few of his paintings. Thanks to the work of the art historian Bernard Berenson, he was rediscovered and acclaimed as a master at the end of the 19th century.
Young man against a white curtain (1508) on loan from the Natural History Museum, Vienna.
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Allegory of Virtue and Vice, on loan from the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj171/Azjahh/Art%20Museum/Lorenzo_Lotto_virtueandvice.jpg
Transfiguration, oil on canvas, 300 x 203 cm, c 1512
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj171/Azjahh/Art%20Museum/Lorenzo_Lottotransfifuration.jpg
Martyrdom of St. Clair, 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" (John 15-5).
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Portrait of a young man, 1526, 47 x 37 cm, on loan from Gemaeldegalerie, Berlin
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Lucrezia, painted in 1533. On loan from the National Gallery of London
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj171/Azjahh/Art%20Museum/Lorenzo_LottoLucresia.jpg
Madonna and Child, with St.Flavian and St.Onophrius (1508) oil on wood cm. 51x65 In the Madonna and Child, 1508, the young Lorenzo Lotto is influenced by D?rer, who when in Venice in 1506 had painted sacred paintings of great chromatic intensity and asymmetrical composition; Lotto's wild St. Onophrius is based on the man with the long beard in D?rer's Christ among the Doctors (now in the Thyssen Collection, Madrid).
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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).
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 musea. Even the top musea of the world possess each only a few of his paintings. Thanks to the work of the art historian Bernard Berenson, he was rediscovered and acclaimed as a master at the end of the 19th century.
Young man against a white curtain (1508) on loan from the Natural History Museum, Vienna.
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj171/Azjahh/Art%20Museum/LorenzoLotto_YoungMan.jpg
Allegory of Virtue and Vice, on loan from the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj171/Azjahh/Art%20Museum/Lorenzo_Lotto_virtueandvice.jpg
Transfiguration, oil on canvas, 300 x 203 cm, c 1512
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj171/Azjahh/Art%20Museum/Lorenzo_Lottotransfifuration.jpg
Martyrdom of St. Clair, 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" (John 15-5).
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj171/Azjahh/Art%20Museum/Lorenzo_LottoMartyrdomofstclaire.jpg
Portrait of a young man, 1526, 47 x 37 cm, on loan from Gemaeldegalerie, Berlin
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj171/Azjahh/Art%20Museum/Lorenzo_LottoPortraitofayoungman.jpg
Lucrezia, painted in 1533. On loan from the National Gallery of London
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj171/Azjahh/Art%20Museum/Lorenzo_LottoLucresia.jpg
Madonna and Child, with St.Flavian and St.Onophrius (1508) oil on wood cm. 51x65 In the Madonna and Child, 1508, the young Lorenzo Lotto is influenced by D?rer, who when in Venice in 1506 had painted sacred paintings of great chromatic intensity and asymmetrical composition; Lotto's wild St. Onophrius is based on the man with the long beard in D?rer's Christ among the Doctors (now in the Thyssen Collection, Madrid).
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj171/Azjahh/Art%20Museum/Lottomadonna1508.jpg
((All information taken from Wikipedia, all photos are public domain and no longer under copyright.))