Encyclopedia of World Art Online Art Gallery Studio-I. Lorenzo Lotto (1480-1556). Issue 196 within the nationwide educational program Encyclopedia of World Art online gallery of interior painting Studio-I (stydiai.ru), on the page Artists -h posted new information. Art lovers can explore the work of one of the greatest Italian masters of the High Renaissance, Cinquecento, Lorenzo Lotto (Lotto Lorenzo). Lorenzo Lotto was born May 15, 1480 in Venice, a merchant family. He studied painting in art workshops at Alvise Vivarini (1445-1505) and Giovanni Bellini (1430-1516). The first mention of the work of Lorenzo Lotto refers to 1503, when the artist worked in Treviso, a small town north of Venice. Bragodarya patronage of the local bishop, Bernardo de Rossi, Lorenzo served numerous orders to write altarpieces in local churches. Simultaneously Lotto wrote secular portraits of the local nobility. Working in the district of Marche, the artist became well acquainted with the work of Luca Signorelli and Melotstso da Forli. Lotto was adherent and the great German artist Albrecht Dürer, who visited Venice in 1505-1506, respectively. Artists knew personally, and in a rich graphic collection Lotto was a lot of works by Durer. In 1506, Lorenzo Lotto was invited to the town of Recanati, Marche region, located in central Italy on the eastern Adriatic coast of the peninsula, to create a large altar in the composition of the local church San Domenico. Subsequently Lotto repeatedly returned to the Marche and it was there, at the temple complex of Santa Casa (Holy House of the Virgin) in Loreto, he ended his days destitute and lonely man. In 1509, Lorenzo Lotto moved to Rome, where he is involved in the design of internal Vatican Palace apartments of Pope Julius II. However, my dad did not like the murals, made Lotto, a one-year artists work was destroyed and subsequently replaced with frescoes by Raphael, have earned a special arrangement of the pontiff. Contract with Lotto was terminated and a one-year work was left without payment. He returned to Florence, where for three years he painted portraits of the local aristocracy. In 1513 Lotto received favorable order from Bergamo to write altar paintings for the local church of the Order of the Dominicans. Lotto brilliantly executed the order and continued to do in Bergamo for another 12 years. Lorenzo Lotto worked not only in the field of religious painting. He also created an extensive gallery of portraits and is considered one of the leading masters of the genre. Outstanding talent portrait appeared in the famous work of Lotto Portrait Lyuchiny Brembate» (Ritratto di Lucina Brembati) (about 1518) from the collection of the Academy of Carrara in Bergamo. Work confirms the glory of Lorenzo Lotto as an outstanding master of subtle psychological characteristics. In 1523 Lotto moved to Venice. In this, he is already very well-known painter. The number of orders received by them to write portraits of the local nobility often exceed his physical abilities. Lotto works very hard, and that his fantastic performance along with exceptional compulsion towards customers bring him the deserved respect among colleagues. In 1531, Lorenzo Lotto was elected member of the organizing committee of the Craft Venetian artists - instead of a deceased famous artist Vincenzo Biagio (1480-1531), one of the disciples and followers of Giovanni Bellini. During this period there dating Lotto with Titian is at this time a member of the Committee. Lotto also maintains friendly relations architect Giovanni dal Coro, which for a long time worked in Venice. Dal Coro designed frame for all portraits and altarpieces, written by Lorenzo Lotto in Venice. A close friend of Lorenzo Lotto at this time and becomes a Florentine architect Jacopo Sansovito (1486-1570), who finished in 1529 as chief architect of the Venetian Republic. It supports Lotto in all its financial affairs, which is very important for an artist in this period. In 1540, Lorenzo Lotto returns to Venice In the nearly 10-year absence, the artists work was almost forgotten. Surrounding admire the works of other, younger artists: the fashion is Mannerism, brought from Florence by artists Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) and Francesco Salviati (1510-1563), who came to Venice in 1539-1540, respectively. Orders artist gets very rare, and his financial situation seriously deteriorates. In 1549 the artist moved to Ancona to work on the altarpiece Ascension in the church of San Francesco alle Rock. In 1550, due to extreme poverty, Lotto arranges the sale of his works. Of the 46 works manage to sell only 7, and only an unexpected order for a few works from the abbot of the monastery of Santa Casa in Loreto bit saves the day. August 30, 1552 Lotto moved to Loreto, and September 8, 1554 commits monastic vows. Lorenzo Lotto died August 18, 1556 at the age of 76 in Loreto, where he was buried with the world. The news about his death went unnoticed in Venice - about him have forgotten, though the Grand Master of the decorated home at the time of many famous dignitaries Italy. Only in 1887, in one of the Venetian archives found testament Lotto, and in the 20th century, the artists personal archive. In 1895, an American art historian Bernard Behrens published the first biography of the artist, again drawing attention to the art connoisseurs on the work of this outstanding Venetian master. In 50 years, numerous exhibitions of the artist held in Venice, London, Paris. The famous art historian Roberto Longhi (1890-1970) through the four centuries after his death, wrote: If time could appreciate the revolutionary essence of art Lotto and he would take the place of the spiritual shepherd of painters, then, perhaps, Venetian art would develop in the future in direction to Rembrandt, Tintoretto and not. In 1953, Italy held a large exhibition, where this kind of master was rediscovered and recognized. In 2012, Italy has undergone an extensive exhibition in full to present the works of this extraordinary artist, so late deserved posthumous fame. On December 14, 2012 to February 10, 2013 at the Pushkin Museum. AS Pushkin was an exhibition of ten works by Lorenzo Lotto .Eksponaty exhibition came mainly from small museums of the Marche region, where the artist spent much of his life, as well as from the Quirinale Palace in Rome and the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo Lorenzo Lotto - an exceptional figure in the Italian artistic culture of the XVI century. Attention to the deep psychological expressiveness and emotionally disturbing images spiritually unites it with the painters of later periods. Creativity Lotto permeated innovation, anticipating the later development of European art. Lotto is often called a harbinger of Caravaggio. Painter works are found in many Italian churches and art galleries. They do not constitute a rarity and in the museums of England and Central Europe. Remarkable of them are in the churches: S. Spirito (Betrothal of St.. Catherine), S. Bernardino (Madonna Enthroned with the upcoming holy) and St. Bartolommeo (Adoration of the Virgin Christ Child) in Bergamo and Rude. St. Domenico (Taking the Virgin into heaven) in Ancona. The State Hermitage Museum, there are three paintings by Lorenzo Lotto, Madonna, Dream Baby-Christ and Portrait of a Man (more about the artist on the site ....). To be continued ......
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