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.
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.
Allegory of Chastity is a c.1505 oil on panel painting by Lorenzo Lotto.
Christ Taking Leave of his Mother is an oil on canvas painting by Lorenzo Lotto, dated to 1521 and now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. It has several similarities with the small Christ Taking Leave of his Mother by Correggio now in London.
Christ Bearing the Cross is a 1526 painting by Lorenzo Lotto, now in the Louvre. It is signed and dated "Laur. Lotus / 1526" on the crossbeam of the cross at the lower right.
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 Jerome and Saint Nicholas of Tolentino is a 1523-1524 oil on canvas painting by Lorenzo Lotto. It is known to have been in the Dawkins collection in Oxford between 1911 and 1955, before passing to the Heinemann collection in New York. In 1960 it passed to its present owner, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which also owns a workshop version of his Mystic Marriage of St Catherine.
Portrait of a Man is an oil on canvas painting by Lorenzo Lotto, dated to around 1545 due to its stylistic similarities to the artist's other works in 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 Lorenzo Lotto, signed "L. Loto" and dated to around 1543 due to 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 Febo da Brescia is a 1543-1544 oil on canvas painting by Lorenzo Lotto. It is identified with the commission mentioned in the artist's account books in April 1543 from Febo Bettignoli da Brescia, a nobleman from Treviso, for paintings of himself and his wife, which were delivered in 1544. After Febo's death in 1547 the painting passed to his wife's heirs and remained with them until her family died out in the 19th century. In 1859, via Francesco Hayez the painter, the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan acquired the paintings of Febo and his wife - they still hang there.
Portrait of Laura da Pola is a 1543-1544 oil on canvas painting by 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. They 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 Brother Gregorio Belo of Vicenza is a 1547 oil on canvas painting by Lorenzo Lotto, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It is inscribed bottom right "F. Gregorr belo de Vicentia / eremite in Hieronimi Ordinis beati / fratri Petris de Pisis Anno / etatis eius LV, M.D.XLVII". Its subject was a Hieronymite monk and so the image's iconography draws on that of the penitent St Jerome.
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 Gentleman is an oil on canvas painting by 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 a Thirty-Seven-Year-Old Gentleman is an oil on canvas portrait by Lorenzo Lotto, now in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj in Rome. It was previously interpreted as a 1517 self-portrait of the artist, but its style does not match Lotto's style of the 1510s. It is now dated to c. 1543 due to stylistic similarities with works produced by the artist in the mid-1540s such as Portrait of Febo da Brescia and Portrait of an Old Man with Gloves.
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.
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 - it was probably the first portrait Lotto produced in that city.
Portrait of Marsilio Cassotti and His Bride Faustina is a 1523 oil on panel painting by Lorenzo Lotto, now in the Prado Museum in Madrid. It is signed and dated "L. Lotus Pictor / 1523". It is the first known marriage portrait produced in Italy, inspired by prints from Germany and the Low Countries.
