Lorenzo Lotto: Rediscovered Master of the Renaissance

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Hailed as the greatest Venetian painter after Titian, Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480-1556) is known for a delightfully idiosyncratic artistic vision that has had special appeal for twentieth-century sensibilities. This book -- which discusses Lotto's life and work -- explores the way his formal and iconographic experiments set him apart from the mainstream culture of his time.

The volume describes and reproduces paintings in most of the genres in which Lotto worked, including devotional paintings, altarpieces, portraits, and mythologies. These are arranged in chronological order from his beginnings as a pupil of Giovanni Bellini through the brilliant work of his maturity on which his reputation was based, to the end of his career in a religious community on the Adriatic coast. Focusing on his autograph paintings, the book presents such masterpieces as Saint Jerome in the Wilderness and Portrait of Andrea Odoni. The authors -- David Alan Brown, Peter Humfrey, Mauro Lucco, and other eminent scholars -- draw on a large number of original documents, including Lotto's will, his letters to a confraternity in Bergamo, and his meticulously kept account books. They discuss not only Lotto's biography and inspiration but also his mastery of allegory, his possible sympathy with the Protestant Reformation, the patrons of his altarpieces, and the so-called Lotto carpets.

This beautiful book is the catalogue for an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., that will run from 2 November 1997 to 1 March 1998.

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Lorenzo Lotto

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Lorenzo Lotto

Born: c.1480 in Venice, Italy
Died: 1556, Venice, Italy

Movement: High Renaissance

Interesting Facts:

Lotto’s work was influenced by Giovanni Bellini.
He was one of the most productive painters of his time.
He was friends with Palma the Elder, an established painter of the time.
He received 500 gold ducats to paint an altarpiece for Santo Stefano.
Lotto entered the Holy Sanctuary at Loreto in 1552 to become a lay brother.

Notable Works:
Lucretia, St Jerome in the Desert, The Transfiguration.

Lotto art book contains 50 Reproductions of biblical, mythical and portrait subjects with title and date.

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Lorenzo Lotto: An Essay in Constructive Art Criticism [ 1901 ]

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Originally published in 1901. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects - Vol. 05 ( of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto

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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects - Vol. 05 ( of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Giorgio Vasari is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Giorgio Vasari then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

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Lorenzo Lotto

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Venetian artist Lorenzo Lotto (ca. 1480-1556/7) painted some of the most startlingly beautiful as well as the most puzzling and moving works of the later Renaissance. In this generously illustrated account of Lotto's life and work, Venetian Renaissance art authority Peter Humfrey offers the first comprehensive treatment of Lotto in English since Berenson's pioneering study published one hundred years ago. Humfrey draws on the large body of Lotto's extant work as well as on sixteenth-century documentation on the artist's life, including his letters, account book for the years 1538-56, and will.

Lotto first practiced as a painter in the town of Treviso, but during his long and restless career he also spent periods in Bergamo and the Marches, as well as in Venice itself. He spent his final, lonely years at Loreto, where he died as a lay brother in a religious community. Humfrey examines the way in which Lotto responded to the work of a wide range of artists, from Giovanni Bellini and Albrecht Durer to Raphael and Titian, but also emphasizes the painter's marked stylistic individuality, even idiosyncrasy. Particularly attractive to twentieth-century viewers are Lotto's portraits, the psychological penetration of which reveal a personality, exceptionally finely attuned to the thoughts and emotions of his fellow human beings. The artist emerges as one of the most engaging and distinctive personalities of Italian Renaissance art.

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Vita di Lorenzo Lotto (Italian Edition)

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This book was digitized and reprinted from the collections of the University of California Libraries. Together, the more than one hundred UC Libraries comprise the largest university research library in the world, with over thirty-five million volumes in their holdings. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found online in the HathiTrust Digital Library. HP's patented BookPrep technology was used to clean artifacts resulting from use and digitization, improving your reading experience. Despite the cleaning process, occasional flaws may still be present that are part of the original book, reflecting the journey of these collections over a lifetime of use.

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