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Lorenzo Lotto (1480-1556)
Professions: Painter
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LORENZO LOTTO
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* LORENZO LOTTO VENICE CIRCA 1480 - 1556 LORETO
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A 'LOTTO' USHAK RUG
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Lorenzo Lotto (Venezia c. 1480-1556 Loreto)
Lorenzo Lotto Biography
(b Venice, c . 1480; d Loreto, 1556). Italian painter and draughtsman. He had a long and often prosperous career as a painter, and, although he travelled widely, his style retained a close affinity with the paintings of his native Venice. He was one of an outstanding generation of painters, including Giorgione, Titian, Palma Vecchio and Pordenone, who appeared in Venice and the Veneto during the first decade of the 16th century. In comparison with his contemporaries, Lotto was a fairly traditional painter in that he worked primarily in the long-established genres of altarpieces, devotional pictures and portraiture. Such paintings were popular in the Venetian provinces and the Marches where Lotto spent much of his career and where he often received more money for his commissions than he could obtain in Venice. His most important commissions were for altarpieces, and he is perhaps best known for a series of sacre conversazioni in which he skilfully varied the symmetrical groupings of figures found in earlier Venetian treatments of the subject by Giovanni Bellini and Alvise Vivarini. Precedents in Venice were also important for Lotto’s early efforts in bust-length portraiture, but from 1525 he made a considerable contribution to the development of the three-quarter-length portrait. He painted many private devotional paintings but only a few of the historical, mythological or allegorical scenes that were popular in northern Italy in this period. Lotto is one of the best-documented painters of the 16th century: 40 autograph letters dating from 1524 to 1539, a personal account book covering the years 1538 to 1554 (the Libro di spese diverse) and many notarial acts survive, as well as 75 signed paintings and numerous securely attributed works.
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Lorenzo Lotto , Venice circa 1480 - 1556 Loreto Ecce Homo oil on panel
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Circle of Lorenzo Lotto (Venice circa 1480-1556) Portrait of a lady, bust-length,
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Lorenzo Lotto (Venice circa 1480-1556 Loreto)
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Circle of Lorenzo Lotto (Venice circa 1480-1556) Portrait of a lady, bust-length,
