Lorenzo Lotto: Rediscovered Master of the Renaissance

Brown, David Alan Brown, PEter Humfrey, Mauro Lucco

ISBN 10: 0300073313 / ISBN 13: 9780300073317

Editore: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 1998

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Navy cltoh boards with gilt lettering. Glossy color-illustrated dust jacket with tan lettering. 238 pp. Profuse color and bw plates. "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." -Jacket. VG/VG- light wear to edges and corners of dust jacket.

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• Titolo: Lorenzo Lotto: Rediscovered Master of the Renaissance
• Editore: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0300073313
• ISBN 13: 9780300073317
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • European Artists

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Riassunto

Venetian artist Lorenzo Lotto (c.1480-1556/7) painted some of the most startlingly beautiful as well as some of the most puzzling and moving works of the later Renaissance. In this beautifully illustrated account of Lotto's life and work, Peter Humfrey offers the first comprehensive treatment of Lotto in English since Bernard Berenson's pioneering study published one hundred years ago. Humfrey draws on the large body of Lotto's extant work as well as on sixteenth-century documentation on the artist's life, including his letters, his account-book for the years 1538-56 and his will.
Lotto first practised as a painter in the town of Treviso, but during his long and restless career he also spent periods in Bergamo and the Marches, as well as in Venice itself. His final, lonely years were passed in Loreto, where he died as a lay brother in the local religious community. Humfrey examines the way in which Lotto responded to the work of a wide range of artists, from Giovanni Bellini and Albrecht Durer to Raphael and Titian, but also emphasises the painter's marked stylistic individuality, even idiosyncrasy. Particularly attractive to twentieth-century viewers are Lotto's portraits, the psychological penetration of which reveal a personality exceptionally finely attuned to the thoughts and emotions of his fellow human-beings. The artist emerges as one of the most engaging and distinctive personalities of Italian Renaissance art.

Informazioni sull?autore

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 Università di Bologna.