Lorenzo Lotto: Rediscovered Master of the Renaissance

Brown, David Alan; Humfrey, Peter; Lucco, Mauro

ISBN 10: 0300073313 / ISBN 13: 9780300073317

Published by National Gallery Washington, 1997

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4to (29 cm), X, 238 pp. Publisher's cloth with dust jacket (minor shelf wear, bookplate). This volume serves as the catalogue for the exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., held from 2 November 1997 to 1 March 1998. Recognized as the greatest Venetian painter after Titian, Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480-1556) is celebrated for his distinctive and highly personal artistic vision, which has resonated strongly with modern audiences. The book provides a comprehensive examination of Lotto's life and work, emphasizing how his formal and iconographic innovations set him apart from the dominant artistic trends of his time. It presents his paintings across all major genres--including devotional works, altarpieces, portraits, and mythological compositions--arranged chronologically from his early apprenticeship under Giovanni Bellini through the masterpieces of his mature period, concluding with his later works produced in a religious community on the Adriatic coast. Leading scholars, including David Alan Brown, Peter Humfrey, and Mauro Lucco, draw on extensive primary sources--Lotto's letters to a Bergamo confraternity, his will, and detailed account books--to illuminate his biography, artistic influences, mastery of allegory, possible affinities with the Protestant Reformation, his patrons, and the so-called 'Lotto carpets' depicted in his compositions.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lorenzo Lotto: Rediscovered Master of the Renaissance
• Publisher: National Gallery Washington
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300073313
• ISBN 13: 9780300073317
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
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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 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.

Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington

Published in association with the National Gallery, Washington

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.