Lorenzo Lotto: Rediscovered Master of the Renaissance - Softcover

Brown, David Alan; Humfrey, Peter; Lucco, Mauro; Gentili, Augusto; National Gallery Of Art (U. S.); Accademia Carrara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0894682571 ISBN 13: 9780894682575

Publisher: Natl Gallery of Art, 1997

Synopsis

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 sc

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About the Author:

David Alan Brown is curator of Italian Renaissance painting at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Peter Humfrey is professor of art history at St. Andrew’s University. Mauro Lucco is professor of art history at the Universitą di Bologna.

About this edition

• Publisher: Natl Gallery of Art
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0894682571
• ISBN 13: 9780894682575
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 237