Lorenzo Lotto was an Italian painter, draughtsman and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school, though much of his career was spent in other north Italian cities. He painted mainly altarpieces, religious subjects and portraits. He was active during the High Renaissance and the first half of the Mannerist period, but his work maintained a generally similar High Renaissance style throughout his career, although his nervous and eccentric posings and distortions represented a transitional stage to the Florentine and Roman Mannerists.
Alessandro Bonvicino, more commonly known as Moretto, or in Italian Il Moretto da Brescia, was an Italian Renaissance painter from Brescia, where he also mostly worked. His dated works span the period from 1524 to 1554, but he was already described as a master in 1516. He was mainly a painter of altarpieces that tend towards sedateness, mostly for churches in and around Brescia, but also in Bergamo, Milan, Verona and Asola; many remain in the churches they were painted for. Most are on canvas, but a number even of large ones are on wood panel. Only a handful of drawings survive.
The Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco is an art gallery in the museum complex of the Castello Sforzesco in Milan, northern Italy.
The Triple Portrait of a Goldsmith is an oil on canvas painting by Lorenzo Lotto, created c. 1530, now held in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. It has previously been attributed to other artists such as Titian until documentary evidence was found linking it to a painting of the same description in various collection inventories. In 1627 it was in the collection of Vincenzo II Gonzaga, who sold it to Charles I of Great Britain, upon whose execution it was auctioned to Philip IV of Spain. It eventually entered the Habsburg collections in Austria via inheritance - inventories show it has been in Vienna since at least 1733.
Saint Jerome in Penitence or Penitent Saint Jerome is a c.1531 oil on canvas painting Titian, now in the Louvre in Paris.
Adoration of the Christ Child is an oil on panel painting produced in 1523 by Lorenzo Lotto and signed at the bottom right "L. Lotus / 1523". It is now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
Allegory of Chastity is a c.1505 oil on panel painting by Lorenzo Lotto.
St Antoninus Giving Alms or The Alms of St Antoninus is an oil on canvas painting by Lorenzo Lotto, created c. 1540–1542. It depicts Archbishop Antoninus of Florence giving alms as an allegorical ideal for bureaucratic charity. The painting is now displayed in the Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice.
Portrait of a Young Man or Portrait of a Gentleman in his Study is a painting by Lorenzo Lotto, created c. 1530, now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia of Venice, whose collections it entered from a private collection in 1930. It is known in Italian as Giovane malato, literally The Ill Young Man - the flower with leaves is thought to be a symbol of disappointment in love or an illness, perhaps melancholy. The subject also turns his back on worldly pleasures. More so than in other works produced around the same time by the artist such as his Portrait of Andrea Odoni, it shows Lotto moving beyond the influence of Titian with preciser definition of details and contours.
Madonna and Child with Two Donors is an oil on canvas painting by Lorenzo Lotto, created c. 1533-1535, now in the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. It and other works by the artist originated in the Palazzo Pallavicini Rospigliosi collection in Rome before being sold to the Benson collection in London, then to the Hearst Corporation in New York and finally to its present owner.
Madonna and Child with Saints is an oil on panel painting by Lorenzo Lotto, signed "L. Lotus F.[ecit]", and created c. 1505. It was first definitively recorded in 1727, when it was in France in the Orléans Collection - it is now in the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh. It is in the Holy Conversation style - on the left are a male saint and Saint Peter, whilst to the left are a female saint and Francis of Assisi.
Madonna and Child with Saint Catherine and Saint James is a oil on canvas painting by Lorenzo Lotto, created c. 1527, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. To the right are the two martyr saints Catherine of Alexandria and James the Great.
Madonna and Child with Saint Roch and Saint Sebastian is an oil on canvas painting by Lorenzo Lotto, created c. 1518, now in the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. On the left is Saint Roch and to the right is Saint Sebastian.
Portrait of a Woman Inspired by Lucretia is an oil on canvas portrait by Lorenzo Lotto, created c. 1533. It is now in the National Gallery, London, which bought it in 1927.
Portrait of a Young Man is an oil on canvas painting by Lorenzo Lotto, signed "L. Lotus pict.". It was created c. 1526. Its dating is based on stylistic similarities to other works produced soon after the artist's return to Venice from Bergamo. It is now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.
Portrait of a Young Man with a Book is an oil on panel painting by Lorenzo Lotto, now in the Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco in Milan, to which it was bequeathed in 1876. - at that point its artist was unknown. It is dated to between the end of Lotto's time in Bergamo and his early years in Venice, that is between 1524 and 1527, and more specifically to around 1526.
Triumph of Chastity is an oil on canvas allegorical painting by Lorenzo Lotto, created c. 1530, now in the Rospigliosi Pallavicini collection in Rome. It is signed at bottom right "Laurentius Lotus" and shows a female personification of Chastity (left) driving away Cupid and Venus - the Venus is based on that on an ancient Roman sarcophagus now in the Vatican Museums.
Holy Family with the Family of St John the Baptist is an oil on canvas painting by Lorenzo Lotto, created c. 1536, now in the Louvre in Paris. It was probably produced as a private commission, possibly for a Venetian. However, for unknown reasons it remained with the artist, who tried to sell it on before leaving for the Marche in 1549, as recorded in a note in his commonplace books. He sought to use his friend Jacopo Sansovino as his go-between for the work, but Sansovino ended up unable to sell this or any other works by Lotto and returned them all to the painter.
Saint Jerome in Penitence is an oil on panel painting by Italian Renaissance artist Lorenzo Lotto. Its signature ("Lotus") is fully legible, but the final number of the date is illegible, though it is usually dated to around 1506. It is now in the Louvre.
Christ Carrying the Cross refers to Jesus's journey to his crucifixion.
