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.
Giovanni Boldini was an Italian genre and portrait painter who lived and worked in Paris for most of his career. According to a 1933 article in Time magazine, he was known as the "Master of Swish" because of his flowing style of painting.
Museo di Capodimonte is an art museum located in the Palace of Capodimonte, a grand Bourbon palazzo in Naples, Italy designed by Giovanni Antonio Medrano. The museum is the prime repository of Neapolitan painting and decorative art, with several important works from other Italian schools of painting, and some important ancient Roman sculptures. It is one of the largest museums in Italy. The museum was inaugurated in 1957.
Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo, also called Girolamo da Brescia, was an Italian High Renaissance painter active mostly in Venice, although he also worked in other cities in northern Italy. He is noted for his subtle use of color and chiaroscuro, and for the sober realism of his works, which are mostly religious subjects, with a few portraits. His portraits are given interest by their accessories or settings; "some even look like extracts from larger narratives".
The Pinacoteca di Brera is the main public gallery for paintings in Milan, Italy. It contains one of the foremost collections of Italian paintings from the 13th to the 20th century, an outgrowth of the cultural program of the Brera Academy, which shares the site in the Palazzo Brera.
Events from the year 1532 in art.
Portrait of a Man with a Medal of Cosimo the Elder, also known as Portrait of a Youth with a Medal, is a tempera painting by Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli. The painting features a young man displaying in triangled hands a medal stamped with the likeness of Cosimo de' Medici. The identity of the young man has been a long-enduring mystery. Completed in approximately 1475, it is on display in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence.
The Triple Portrait of a Goldsmith or Portrait of a goldsmith from three angles is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Lorenzo Lotto, created c. 1530 and now held in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. It was previously attributed to other artists such as Titian until it was identified with a painting of the same description described in various collection inventories as by the hand of Lotto. 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.
The Entombment of Christ is a 1513–1516 oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Lorenzo Lotto, now in the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo. It originally formed the central predella panel to the artist's Martinengo Altarpiece at the church of Santi Bartolomeo e Stefano.
Portrait of a Young Man or Portrait of a Gentleman in his Study is an oil-on-canvas painting by Lorenzo Lotto, created c. 1530, now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia of Venice. 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 more precise definition of details and contours.
Madonna and Child with Saint Roch and Saint Sebastian is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian Renaissance artist 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 Man is an oil-on-canvas painting created c. 1545 by the Italian High Renaissance artist Lorenzo Lotto. Its dating is based on stylistic similarities to Lotto's other works of the mid-1540s, such as Portrait of an Old Man with Gloves (Milan). Another theory holds that the subject is Giovanni Taurini da Montepulciano, viceroy of Ancona, which would change the date to 1551, the year of Lotto's arrival in Ancona. It is now in the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan, which it entered in 1855 as part of the Oggioni Bequest.
Portrait of an Old Man with Gloves is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Lorenzo Lotto. It is assigned a date c.1543 on the basis of stylistic similarities with Portrait of Febo da Brescia, Portrait of a Thirty-Seven-Year-Old Gentleman and other works produced by the artist in the mid 1540s. Its final private owner was count Castellane Harrach of Turin, from whose collection it entered the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan in 1859, where it still hangs.
Portrait of Laura da Pola is an oil-on-canvas painting created in 1543–44 by the Italian artist Lorenzo Lotto. Its subject was the wife of Febo Bettignoli da Brescia, a nobleman from Treviso, who commissioned this work and its pair from Lotto in April 1543, as recorded in the painter's account books. The paintings were delivered in 1544 and after Febo's death in 1547 remained with his wife's descendants until her family died out in the 19th century. Both works were acquired in 1859 by the Pinacoteca di Brera, where they still hang
Portrait of a Gentleman is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian artist Lorenzo Lotto, created c. 1535, now in the Galleria Borghese in Rome. It first appears in the written record in 1790, when it is mentioned in an inventory of the Galleria Borghese.
Portrait of Giovanni Agostino della Torre and his son Niccolò is an oil-on-canvas painting by Lorenzo Lotto, created in 1515, and now in the National Gallery, London. It is signed and dated "L.[aurentius] Lotus P.[inxit] / 1515". Its subjects have been identified via inscriptions scattered throughout the painting. They both practised medicine and pharmacy in Bergamo, selling iron vitriol from a shop on Piazza Vecchia.
Holy Family with Saint Catherine of Alexandria is a 1533 oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Lorenzo Lotto, now in the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo. It is signed and dated "Laurentius Lotus 1533" and it measures 85.7 cm in height and 110.8 cm in width. Six later copies after the work are known. The Bergamo version is judged to be of exceptional quality, and the earliest.
Saint Lucy Before the Judge is a mixed-medium panel painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Lorenzo Lotto, signed and dated to 1532, consisting of a main work and a predella with three other scenes from saint Lucy's life. It is now in the painting gallery of the Musei Civici di Palazzo Pianetti in Jesi in the province of Ancona.
Portrait of a Sick Man is a 1515 oil on canvas painting by Titian. It is now in the Uffizi in Florence.
The Portrait of Elena Anguissola, dated to 1551, is one of the earliest paintings by Sofonisba Anguissola. An oil painting on canvas, it is in the Southampton City Art Gallery, which acquired it in 1936.
