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Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480 – 1556/57) was an Italian Renaissance painter, draughtsman, and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school, though much of his career was spent in other north Italian cities. He painted mainly altarpieces, religious subjects and portraits.
Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480 – 1556/57) was an Italian painter, draughtsman and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school, though much of his career was spent in other North Italian cities. He painted mainly altarpieces, religious subjects and portraits.
- Italian
- Venice, Italy
Lorenzo Lotto was a late Renaissance Italian painter known for his perceptive portraits and mystical paintings of religious subjects. He represents one of the best examples of the fruitful relationship between the Venetian and Central Italian (Marche) schools.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Lotto was one of the leading Venetian-trained painters of the earlier 16th century. He painted portraits and religious works exclusively. His early works are strongly influenced by Giovanni Bellini.
Lotto is one of the most extensively documented 16 th-century painters thanks to his Libro di spese diverse [Account Book], the letters he wrote to the Consorzio della Misericordia Maggiore in Bergamo, and the fact that he signed and dated all his works. Lotto worked in Treviso, The Marches, Bergamo and Venice.
A codex in his own handwriting, discovered in the archives of Loreto, not only includes a complete statement of his accounts, from about 1539 to his death, but has a most interesting entry from which we gather that in 1540 Lotto completed the portraits of Martin Luther and his wife.
Lorenzo Lotto (Venice, 1480 - Loreto, 1556/1557) was a restless and wandering painter: born in Venice and trained in the lagoon, he found no space in his hometown because of his extremely innovative and original, as well as unconventional and anticlassical, painting.
