Art historians from around the world in Loreto for international conference on Lorenzo Lotto, Feb. 1-3

To be held at the Pontifical Museum of the Holy House in Loreto is the international conference Lorenzo Lotto. Contexts, Meanings, Preservation, which will bring some of the world’s greatest art historians to the Marche region for three days, February 1-3, 2019. The conference is curated by Francesca Coltrinari (University of Macerata) and Enrico Maria Dal Pozzolo (University of Verona), is organized by the Marche Region in collaboration with the Pontifical Delegation of the Holy House of Loreto, City of Loreto, University of Macerata, and has a scientific committee composed of Bernard Aikema (University of Verona), Francesca Coltrinari (University of Macerata), Enrico Maria Dal Pozzolo (University of Verona), David Ekserdjian (University of Leicester, UK), Massimo Ferretti (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), Peter B. Humfrey (University of St. Andrews, UK), Antonio Pinelli (University of Florence), Vito Punzi (Museo Pontificio Santa Casa di Loreto), Marco Tanzi (University of Salento).

Below is the full program of the event:

Friday, February 1, 2019

Loreto, Museo Pontificio Santa Casa, Sala degli Svizzeri

Institutional greetings (h. 17.00- 17.30)
Moreno Pieroni, Councillor for Culture, Marche Region
Msgr. Fabio Dal Cin, Pontifical Delegate of Loreto
Paolo Niccoletti, Mayor of Loreto
Francesco Adornato, Rector of the University of Macerata

Opening of the conference (h. 17.30-19.30)
Introducers: Francesca Coltrinari, Enrico Maria Dal Pozzolo

Mauro Lucco, University of Bologna
Lorenzo Lotto and time (in the workshop)

Round table. Lorenzo Lotto to the present: an open dialogue
Bernard Aikema (University of Verona), David Ekserdjian (University of Leicester), Peter B. Humfrey (University of St. Andrews), Antonio Pinelli (University of Florence), Marco Tanzi (University of Salento)

h. 20.00: dinner

h. 21.30: Loreto, Apostolic Palace, Paul VI Hall
Open public screening of the documentary film Lorenzo Lotto. Journey into the Crisis of the Renaissance by Enrico Maria Dal Pozzolo, directed by Luca Criscenti

Saturday, February 2, 2019
Loreto, Museo Pontificio Santa Casa, Sala degli Svizzeri

First session. Biography, patronage, relationships (h. 9 a.m.-1 p.m.)
Moderator: Marco Tanzi, University of Salento

Francesca Coltrinari, University of Macerata
More on Lotto and his context: connections with the Recanati fair, the port of Ancona, the Loreto shipyard

Edoardo Demo, University of Verona
Lorenzo Lotto’s book of miscellaneous expenses: an economic analysis of the content

Clim Wijnands, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome
Art for the shoemaker and the diamond cutter: Lorenzo Lotto’s artisan customers

David Frapiccini, “La Sapienza” University of Rome
Lorenzo Lotto and the Life of Marcus Aurelius the Emperor. The search for virtue between active and contemplative life in the wake of the most widespread sixteenth-century moral literature

h. 11.00: coffee break

Moderator: David Ekserdjian, University of Leicester

Stefania Castellana, University of Salento
A traveling humanist in Renaissance Marche: Niccolò Peranzone between Lorenzo Lotto and Johannes Hispanus

Lorenzo Mascheretti, University of Bologna
“Ignorante et di pocha religione de Cristo”. Lorenzo Lotto and Fra Damiano Zambelli

Radoslav Tomić, Institute of Art History, Zagreb-Split
The portraits of the bishop Toma Nigris in Split

Angelo Maria Monaco, Academy of Fine Arts, Lecce
Lorenzo Lotto and Giulio Camillo Delminio in their time

1 p.m.: lunch

Second session. Stylistic analyses and iconographic interpretations (h. 14.30-17.00)
Moderator: Bernard Aikema, University of Verona

Fabio Marcelli, University of Perugia
Toward the East: prologue for Lorenzo Lotto’s Saint Nicholas of the Carmines

Andrea Fiore, University of Salento
A Lotto for the far Adriatic: the San Felice for the "homeni de Iuvenazo "

Vito Punzi, Museo Pontificio Santa Casa, Loreto
Lorenzo Lotto’s painted and lost “instories of the Madonna of Loreto”

Moderator: Peter B. Humfrey, University of St. Andrews

Morten Steen Hansen, Academy of Denmark, Rome
Lorenzo Lotto’s Trinity and the Deluge of 1524

Francesco Sorce, University of Roma Tre
Heretic to whom? The Turks at Trescore

Edoardo Villata, Veneranda Biblioteca e Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan
Parallel (asymmetrical) Lives: Lotto and Pordenone in Venice and beyond

Giovanni Valagussa, Carrara Academy, Bergamo
Domenico Capriolo, emulous of Lotto

5:15 pm: Departure by coach to visit the exhibition Lorenzo Lotto. The Lure of the Marche. Places, Times and People (Macerata, Civic Museums of Palazzo Buonaccorsi)

6-8 p.m.: visit to the exhibition

8:30 p.m.: Macerata, Philharmonic Theater. Dinner

10 p.m.: return to Loreto

Sunday, February 3, 2019

Loreto, Museo Pontificio Santa Casa, Sala degli Svizzeri

Third session. Drawings, prints and interdisciplinary approaches (h. 9.00-11. 00)
Moderator: Antonio Pinelli, University of Florence

Catherine Monbeig Goguel, Musée du Louvre, Paris
A proposal for Lorenzo Lotto landscape draughtsman

Matthias Wivel, National Gallery, London
Proposals for Lotto’s oil sketches

Francesco De Carolis, University of Bologna
Lorenzo Lotto and engraving: modus operandi and new openings

Marco Collareta, University of Pisa
"Congenial Arts. Lorenzo Lotto and the world of manufactures

Silvija Banić, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
On Textiles and Embroideries in Lorenzo Lotto’s Paintings.

Raffaella Poltronieri, University of Verona
Lotto’s jewels: stones, cameos and seals

h. 11.00 coffee break

Fourth session. Criticism, collecting, conservation, restoration (h. 11.30- 13.30)
Moderator: Massimo Ferretti, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa

Simone Facchinetti, University of Salento
Bernard Berenson young and old, two different visions of Lotto (1895 and 1955)

Marta Paraventi, Marche Region
The dispersion of Lorenzo Lotto’s works from the Marche region

Caterina Paparello, University of Macerata
Lorenzo Lotto disputed and stolen: new documents on the Osimo case and the Alabarda altarpiece

Andrea Di Lorenzo, Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Milan
A new Saint Catherine by Lorenzo Lotto in the Poldi Pezzoli Museum

Francesca Pappagallo (Academy of Fine Arts, Macerata), Fabio Piacentini(Vatican Museums), Alberto Sangalli (Restorer, Bergamo)
Dialogue on the restoration of the works of Lorenzo Lotto

h. 13.30 lunch

For more information you can visit the Macerata Musei website.

Pictured: Lorenzo Lotto, The Sacrifice of Melchizedek (c. 1545-1550; oil on canvas, 172 x 248 cm; Loreto, Museo Pontificio della Santa Casa)

Art historians from around the world in Loreto for international conference on Lorenzo Lotto, Feb. 1-3

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