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 di Brera is the main public gallery for paintings in Milan, Italy. It contains one of the foremost collections of Italian paintings, an outgrowth of the cultural program of the Brera Academy, which shares the site in the Palazzo Brera.
St. Mark Preaching in Alexandria is an oil painting by Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, dated to 1504–07 and held in the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan.
The Triple Portrait of a Goldsmith is a 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.
Pietà or The Dead Christ Supported by the Virgin Mary and St John the Evangelist is a tempera on panel painting by Giovanni Bellini, now in the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan.
The Greek Madonna is a 1460–1470 tempera on panel painting by Giovanni Bellini. It is named after the Greek monograms at top left and top right and after the major influence of Byzantine icons on the painting. The Christ Child holds a golden apple, perhaps referring to the Judgement of Paris and to Mary as the "new Venus".
Adoration of the Shepherds is a c.1534 oil on canvas painting by Lorenzo Lotto, signed "Lottus" and now in the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo in Brescia. Its dating is based on stylistic motifs such as the naturalistic details similar to those of the Recanati Annunciation. It also shows similarities to nativities painted around the same time by Girolamo Savoldo, whom Lotto met in Venice. It seems to have been commissioned by Braccio II and Sforza Baglioni, two noblemen from Perugia, who were the models for the two shepherds. They may have met the artist in the Marche during a pilgrimage to Loreto. A ring on Mary's right hand is probably an allusion to the Holy Ring, a relic in Perugia Cathedral, which supports the idea that the work was produced for that city. This provenance is solely based on an account from 1824 by the art-dealer who that year sold it to Paolo Tosio, a count from Brescia.
Pietà is an oil on canvas painting by Lorenzo Lotto, signed "Laurentio Lotto". It is mentioned in Lotto's account books as being commissioned in 1538 for the altar dedicated to the Pietà in the Dominican Church of San Paolo in Treviso. The account books also mention that the work was completed in 1545. That church was suppressed under the Napoleonic regime late in the 18th century and in 1811 the painting was bought for 12 ducats by the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan, where it still hangs.
Presentation in the Temple is a oil on canvas painting of the presentation of Jesus at the Temple by Lorenzo Lotto, created c. 1552-1556, now in the Museo pinacoteca della Santa Casa in Loreto. It is recognised as Lotto's last surviving autograph work - he had become an oblate at the Holy House of Loreto and produced this and several other large canvases for the choir of the church there. Vasari's Lives of the Artists mentions Lotto planning a series of scenes from Christ's childhood for Loreto, of which Presentation is thought to be one.
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 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 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 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.
St Peter Martyr with St Nicholas and St Benedict is an oil on canvas painting by Cima da Conegliano, created c. 1505-1506, now in the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan. It references the sacra conversazione pieces by Giovanni Bellini, whilst the landscape shows the artist as an early adopter of the new style of Giorgione.
Madonna and Child with an Angel is a c.1540-1550 oil on canvas painting by Moretto da Brescia, now in the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan, which acquired it in 1911. It had previously been in Gustavo Frizzoni's collection.
Madonna and Child with Four Saints is a c.1543 oil on canvas painting by Moretto da Brescia, now in the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan, to which it moved during the Napoleonic seizures in 1808. It was painted for the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Gardone Val Trompia. In the foreground are Jerome, Francis of Assisi and Anthony the Great.
Madonna and Child with a Man or Madonna and Child with a Male Figure is an oil painting on panel of c. 1503–04 by Bramantino in the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan, which it entered in 1896. The painting had previously been in the collection of cardinal Cesare Monti, left to the Archdiocese of Milan in 1650. Its previous provenance is unknown, though its small dimensions suggest that it was intended for private devotion.
Madonna of the Rose Garden is a c.1510 oil on panel painting by Bernardino Luini, now in the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan, which acquired it from the Giuseppe Bianchi collection in 1826.
Portrait of Minerva Anguissola is a c. 1564 oil on canvas painting by Sofonisba Anguissola, now in the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan.
