Lorenzo Lotto

Lorenzo Lotto (born v. 1480 with Venice - died in 1556 with Lorette) was a painter Italy N of the Renaissance. He is regarded as one of the major painters of first half of the 16th century since the traditional study that Bernard Berenson in 1895 made of it.

Biography

Lorenzo Lotto is known like a sensitive artist, tormented, anxious, unstable, with the wandering life. It is subject to the influence of Giovanni Bellini. Resident with Trévise, in 1505, it carries out tables for churches in a rather hieratic style, with a very particular character. He represents Italian Madonna and Virgins surrounded by saints and angels, exploits the gracious prospects and forms.

He is also influenced by Giorgione or Léonard de Vinci. One says it friendly with Palma it Vecchio to the temperament equalizes, soft like his.

With Bergamo, of 1513 with 1526, it carries out Retable S with the poetic creative force, for the churches, Saint-Etienne (1513; auj. with St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre) and Saint-Bernardin (1521).

With Venice, it is Miniaturiste and famous invaluable Manuscrit S for religious communities.

With Rome, in 1509, it carries out the decoration of the apartments of Jules II and that of the Rooms (Stanze) of the the Vatican. Raphaël, of which it tries to imitate the style, realizes in its turn of paintings of illustrations with large scales.

Principal works

Influenced by Bellini and Raphaël, then by the German school (To last), its work, characterized by pathetic portraits characters melancholic persons, seems nevertheless very personal. It is made up many Retable religious S and tables.

Among his works one finds:

  • Holy Jerome in the desert (1505, Museum of Louvre, Paris), expressing feelings of concern and marked by the use of the cold chromatic range.

  • the Virgin with the Four Saints , for the church San Bartolommeo.
  • Worship of the shepherds (Tosio-Martinengo Art gallery, Brescia)
  • Portrait of young man , (Academy, Venice)
  • the mystical Marriage of Holy-Catherine , 1523 (Carrara academy, Bergamo)
  • Main Marsilio and its wife , 1523, (Museum of Prado, Madrid)
  • Portement of cross , 1526 (Museum of Louvre, Paris)
  • Retable of Holy Lucie , 1531 (Art gallery, Iesi)

Internal bonds

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