Lorenzo Lotto - Finestre sull'Arte

Imagined encounters: Lorenzo Lotto and the masters of the 16th century in Brescia exhibition

The colors, emotions and gestures of Lorenzo Lotto to compose, from December 1, 2023 to April 7, 2024, a path of beauty at the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo in Brescia. The Brescia Musei Foundation is organizing the exhibition Lorenzo Lotto. Incontri i...
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The Portrait of Giovanni della Volta With His Wife and Children by Lorenzo Lotto

The Portrait of Giovanni della Volta With His Wife and Children by the Venetian artist Lorenzo Lotto can reveal some aspects of his personality and the society that surrounded him. The portrait is key to understanding the artist's qualities, ...
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Lorenzo Lotto's unconventional Adoration: human and divine live in the humility of Christmas

Few artists knew how to give a work such a touch of innovation and expressive freedom as Lorenzo Lotto (Venice, 1480 - Loreto, 1556/1557). This can be clearly seen in theAdoration of the Shepherds preserved at the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo in Bresc...
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Brescia, an important painting by Lorenzo Lotto on loan to the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo

An illustrious guest at the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo in Brescia: until June 23, 2023, thanks to an extraordinary loan from the Nivaagaards Malerisamling Museum in Nivå, Denmark, the Lombard museum has on display a Portrait of a Man with Rosa...
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At the Palazzo delle Paure, Lorenzo Lotto dialogues with Giovanni Frangi in the sign of restlessness

Opening on December 5, 2020 behind closed doors at the Palazzo delle Paure in Lecco, Italy, the exhibition Lotto. The Restlessness of Reality. The gaze of Giovanni Frangi, sponsored by the Pastoral Community and Cultural Association Madonna del Rosar...
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Lorenzo Lotto's restlessness between Leopardi and Anna Banti: the Transfiguration of Recanati

Those who try to find, in Giacomo Leopardi's writings, a glimmer of interest in Lorenzo Lotto will be disappointed. Yet it will be said that the coincidences are many. Starting with the presence of the Venetian artist in the "native wild village,...
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Lorenzo Lotto's works in Jesi: five masterpieces of the 16th century

The first document attesting to the relationship between the great painter Lorenzo Lotto (Venice, 1480 - Loreto, 1557) and the town of Jesi, a center where no less than five important Lotto masterpieces are preserved, is a contract dated October ...
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Lorenzo Lotto: two copies (but what copies!)

I confess to a half-hearted shock when, leafing through the latest issue of the scholarly journal Artibus et historiae (80, 2019), I came across an article by Keith Christiansen entitled Thoughts Regarding Two Lost Portrait Covers by Lorenzo Lotto....
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