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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 Lorenzo Lotto 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, Lorenzo Lotto 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 artistic 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 Lorenzo Lotto was the pupil of Alvise Vivarini, whose religious severity and asceticism remained paramount in his work, even late in his life, when Lorenzo Lotto 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.- Lotto Lorenzo oil painting for sale famous paintings Italy - Lotto Lorenzo famous oil painting Italy sale - oil painting Lotto Lorenzo Bio, Italy famous oil painting for sale, Lotto Lorenzo paintings for sale and famous oil paintings sale.

That Lotto, who was one of the most productive painters of his time, could work for thirty years without succumbing to the mighty influence of Titian's sumptuous color, is explained by the fact that during these years Lorenzo Lotto was away from Venice, as is abundantly proved by documents and by the evidence of signed and dated works. The first of these documents, dated 1503, proves him to have lived at Treviso at this period. His earliest authentic pictures, Sir Martin Conway's Dana (about 1498) and the St Jerome of the Louvre (a similar subject is at the Madrid Gallery ascribed to Titian), as indeed all the works executed before 1509, have unmistakable Vivarinesque traits in the treatment of the drapery and landscape, and cool grey tonality. To this group belong the Madonnas at Bridgewater House, Villa Borghese, Naples, and Sta Cristina near Treviso, the Recanati altarpiece, the Annunciation of the Virgin at Asolo, and the portrait of a young man at Hampton Court. We find him at Rome between 1508 and 1512, at the time Raphael was painting in the Stanza della Signatura.

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