LORENZO LOTTO - Rediscovered Master of the Renaissance

LORENZO LOTTO (C.1480-1556/57)

Lotto anses for den mest betydningsfulde Venetianske maler efter Titian. Bogen følger ham fra starten som elev af Giovanni Bellini frem til hans status som een af renæssansens mest betydningsfulde malere. Fra fascinerende portrætter over underfundige landskaber til allegoriske mesterværker. 

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.