Lorenzo Lotto

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Image:Lorenzo Lotto 017.jpg Template:Commonscat Lorenzo Lotto (c.1480 - 1556) was an Italian painter active during the Renaissance. His nervous and eccentric posings and distortions often mark him as the Northern Italian-Venetian counterpart of Mannerist style. Lotto worked mostly in Bergamo and Treviso, but also spent some time in The Marches (Recanati and Loreto), and Venice and Rome proper. He is often considered a member of the Venetian school of Painting. His style changing, perhaps evolving, from a detached Giorgionesque classicism, to a more vibrant dramatic setpiece, more reminiscent of this North Italian contemporary, Antonio da Correggio. The dystonic distortions are also common among other contemporary provincial artists, such as Dosso Dossi, but are also found among contemporaries working mainly in Venice proper. Among three masterpieces that could be used to illustrate this progreession of styles are the following:

Madonna and Child with Sts Dominic, Gregory and Urban, (1508, Pinacoteca Comunale, Recanati)[1]
The Annunciation, (1527, Pinacoteca Comunale, Recanati)[2]
The Trial of Lucy, (1532, Pinacoteca Civica, Iesi) [3]

1 Life
2 Works
3 Miscellaneous
4 References

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Life

Born in Venice, he worked in Venice, Rome, Bergamo and possibly Tuscany. He trained in the studio of Giovanni Bellini, along with Giorgione and Titian. In 1552 he entered the Holy Sanctuary at Loreto, becoming a lay brother.

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