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.
Borgo is the 14th rione of Rome, Italy. It is identified by the initials R. XIV and is included within Municipio I.
The Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore is a major church in the upper town of Bergamo, Northern Italy.
Andrea Previtali was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Bergamo. He was also called Andrea Cordelliaghi.
Bergamo Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Bergamo, Italy, dedicated to Saint Alexander of Bergamo, patron saint of the city. It is the seat of the Bishop of Bergamo.
Palma Vecchio, born Jacopo Palma, also known as Jacopo Negretti, was a Venetian painter of the Italian High Renaissance. He is called Palma Vecchio in English and Palma il Vecchio in Italian to distinguish him from Palma il Giovane, his great-nephew, who was also a painter.
Agostino Facheris (16th-century) was an Italian painter, active in Bergamo, Italy. He was also known as il Caversegno after the contrada of Presezzo where he was born.
San Bernardino in Pignolo is a Roman Catholic church located on Via Pignolo #59, in Bergamo, region of Lombardy, Italy.
Santo Spirito is a Roman Catholic church located on Piazzetta Santo Spirito in Bergamo, in the region of Lombardy, Italy.
The Santo Spirito Altarpiece is a 1521 oil-on-panel painting by Lorenzo Lotto, signed and dated "L. Lotus / 1521". The work shows the Madonna and Child with saints Catherine of Alexandria, Augustine of Hippo, Sebastian and Anthony the Great. At the foot of the throne is John the Baptist as a child with the Lamb of God.
The San Gottardo Altarpiece is an oil on canvas painting by Giovanni Cariani, previously dated to 1520 but now thought to have been begun in 1517 and completed in 1518. This made it perhaps his first major work and certainly the first work he produced in Bergamo after arriving there on 15 August 1517 - St Joseph was the city's patron saint. It was commissioned as an altarpiece by the council of the Scuola di san Giuseppe for the church of San Gottardo. There was tension between the commissioners and the artist and - instead of Cariani - they opted for Lorenzo Lotto and Previtali for the larger works in the church.
The Ponteranica Altarpiece is a six-panel oil painting series produced by Lorenzo Lotto in 1522, commissioned by the Scuola del Corpo di Cristo for the parish church of San Vincenzo e Sant'Alessandro in Ponteranica, where it still remains. Its upper register shows the risen Christ flanked by an Annunciation scene, whilst below is John the Baptist flanked by saints Peter and Paul.
Madonna and Child with St John the Baptist and St Catherine of Alexandria or Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine with St John the Baptist is an oil on panel painting by Andrea Previtali, produced c. 1504, during his youthful years in Giovanni Bellini's studio. Belonging to the sacra conversazione genre, it is now in the sacristy of the church of San Giobbe in Venice, whilst a autograph copy of the work is now in the National Gallery in London. The London work includes a scroll below Mary inscribed + 1504/Andrea Cordelle/Agi dissipulus/iouanis Bellini/pinxit and the number 24, variously interpreted as the artist's age or as his personal symbol using the signus tabellanolis, a technique used by 16th century notaries the better to identify works' and documents' authenticity.
Salvator mundi is an oil on panel painting by Andrea Previtali, executed in 1519, now in the National Gallery, London, to which it was left in 1910. The work was produced in Bergamo.
Annunciation is a 1505-1510 oil on canvas painting by Andrea Previtali, produced for the high altar of the church of Santa Maria Annunziata in Meschio, now a district of Vittorio Veneto, where it is still on show. It was produced before the Bergamo-born artist returned to his birthplace. It is signed ANDREA BERGOMENSIS IOANIS BELLINI DISCIPLINUS PINXIT and shows marked influence from Previtali's teacher Giovanni Bellini.
Lament over the Dead Christ is a 1524 or 1525 oil on canvas painting by Andrea Previtali, produced for the church of Sant’Andrea, Bergamo, where it still hangs.
The Transfigured Christ is a 1513 oil-on-panel painting by Andrea Previtali, in the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan since 1811 It is signed and dated Al Nobel homo mr/Andrea dipintor in/Bergamo/MDXIII on a small book at bottom right.
Madonna and Child with Saint Dominic and Saint Martha of Bethany is a 1517-1520 oil on canvas painting by Andrea Previtali produced for the monastery of Santa Marta in Bergamo and since 2010 in the collections of the UBI Banca in Bergamo.
Madonna and Child with Saint Sebastian and Saint Vincent Ferrer or Madonna and Child with Saint Sebastian and Saint Thomas Aquinas is an oil on panel painting by Andrea Previtali. It was produced in 1506 in Venice while he was still in the studio of Giovanni Bellini and is contemporary with the same artist's Madonna and Child. It is now in the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, to which it passed from Guglielmo Lochis's collection in 1866.
Scenes from Tebaldeo's Eclogues is a set of four small square oil on panel paintings by Andrea Previtali, executed between 1505 and 1510, now in the National Gallery, London. They show scenes from the Ferrarese writer Antonio Tebaldeo's eclogue on the life of Damon of Athens, featuring his friend Thyrsis and Damon's love for Amaryllis. They were probably originally part of a piece of furniture for a rich Venetian noble family. Previtali's master Giovanni Bellini also produced furniture with scenes from the same book.
