Lorenzo Lotto: Rediscovered Master of the Renaissance

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

ISBN 10: 0300073313 / ISBN 13: 9780300073317

Editore: 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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• Titolo: Lorenzo Lotto: Rediscovered Master of the Renaissance
• Editore: National Gallery Washington
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0300073313
• ISBN 13: 9780300073317
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Fine
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Art

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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 Universitą di Bologna.