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c.1480 - 1556 • Italian • Painter • Renaissance/Mannerist
"He shows us people in want of the consolations of religion, of sober thought, of friendship and affectation. They look out from his canvases as if begging for sympathy." - Bernard Berenson, 1894
Although TITIAN professed to admire him, Lotto chose a more conservative route and failed to explore the ground his somewhat younger contemporary broke in the handling of color and paint. Rather, Lotto showed such a multitude of stylistic influences that he is often called a chameleon. Still, he was individualistic-he has also been called the most idiosyncratic Venetian artist of the 16th century-and was sometimes inspired in his presentation of ideas. In Annunciation (1520s), for example, the unexpected angel Gabriel arrives on the scene with a long stalk of white lilies, and Mary's own great surprise is mirrored by that of a startled cat. Lotto's pleasure in novelty and humor is also apparent in the painting Saint Jerome in the Desert (1506). Jerome is seen from above as a small, frail figure among looming rocks. One must search the canvas to locate the saint's constant companion, the lion from whose paw Jerome removed a thorn, but it is finally to be found emerging from the shadow between the rocks. In this work CLARK sees the influence of DURER on Lotto, especially because it "contains rocks and trees remarkably similar to the drawings which Durer did on his journey home from Italy in 149 5." The Northern echo of GRUNEWALD is seen in Lotto, too, in some of his dark and clashing, un-Venetian colorings. Noting that Lotto did portraits of Luther, scholars speculate about his interest in Protestantism. BERENSON, in the quotation above, makes an interesting, related comment.
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