… the symbolism and psychological depth of Renaissance portraits

3. … un nouveau sens du portrait

4. … the symbolism and psychological depth of Renaissance portraits

6. Lorenzo Lotto
Portraits

7. LOTTO, Lorenzo
Portrait of a Lady as
Lucretia
Portrait de dame tenant
un dessin de Lucrèce
1530-1533
National Gallery,
London

10. LOTTO, Lorenzo
Portrait of a
Gentleman with a
Rosary
Portrait d´un
gentilhomme avec
une Chapelet
1515-1518
Nivaagaards
Malerisamling, Niva,
Denmark

14. LOTTO, Lorenzo
Portrait of Giovanni
della Volta with his
Wife and Children
Portrait de
Giovanni della
Volta avec son
épouse et ses
enfants
1547
National Gallery,
London

19. LOTTO, Lorenzo
Marsilio Cassotti and
His Bride Faustina
Marsilio Cassotti et
son épouse Faustine
1523
Museo del Prado,
Madrid

23. LOTTO, Lorenzo
Portrait of a Married
Couple
Portrait d'un couple
marié
1523-24
The Hermitage, St.
Petersburg

26. LOTTO, Lorenzo
Portrait of Andrea
Odoni
Portrait d’Andrea
Odoni
1527
Royal Collection,
Hampton Court

29. LOTTO, Lorenzo
Portrait of a Young
man
Portrait de jeune
homme
1500
Accademia Carrara
Pinacoteca di Arte
Antica, Bergamo

33. LOTTO, Lorenzo
Portrait of a Young
Man with with a Lamp
Portrait de jeune
homme à la lampe
1506
Kunsthistorisches
Museum, Vienna

37. LOTTO, Lorenzo
Triple Portrait of a
Goldsmith
L'Orfèvre au trois
visages
1530
Kunsthistorisches
Museum, Vienna

41. LOTTO, Lorenzo
Portrait of Laura da
Pola
Laura da Pola
1544
Pinacoteca di Brera,
Milan

45. LOTTO, Lorenzo
Portrait of a Young
Man With a Book
Jeune homme au livre
1526-1527
Pinacoteca di Brera,
Milan

49. LOTTO, Lorenzo
Portrait of a Man With
a Lizard
Portrait de jeune
homme au lézard
1530 - 1532
Gallerie
dell'Accademia,
Venice

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58. Lorenzo Lotto Portraits
Celebrated as one of the greatest portraitists of the Italian Renaissance, Lorenzo Lotto uniquely
portrayed a cross section of middle-class sitters, among them clerics, merchants, and humanists.
The look of his portraits is both penetrating and idiosyncratic. Beautifully lit faces appear almost
eerily immediate against dark backdrops or Lotto’s famous green curtains.
Lotto depicted men, women, and children in compositions rich in symbolism and imbued with
great psychological depth. The prominent addition of objects which hinted at the social status,
interests, and aspirations of his subjects added meaning to each work.
The bishop Bernardo de’Rossi, his light blue eyes tenacious and shrewd: Lotto shows him as a
formidable force, brave enough to survive their assassination attempts.
The anxious merchant, the nervous scholar, the elderly lawyer: each seems to see his life summed
up in the moment of depiction.
And Lotto awards them all the same gift: a startling combination of intensity and profundity.

59. Un nouveau sens du portrait
Peintre singulier actif à Venise et dans le nord de l’Italie, en marge des grands courants artistiques
du Cinquecento, Lorenzo Lotto fut, entre autres, l’auteur de fascinants portraits.
Il ne peignit pas les grands de ce monde, comme Titien, mais des gens de la petite noblesse, des
bourgeois, des humanistes, hommes de lettres, artistes, ecclésiastiques, dans des attitudes et des
dispositifs révélant la psychologie du personnage, qui s’ « ouvrait » ainsi au spectateur.
C'est dans le portrait que Lotto s'est montré le plus novateur.
Inaugure le portrait psychologique, cherchant à pénétrer dans chaque homme qui pose devant lui
ce qui lui est propre : son caractère.
Lotto a voulu faire des « portraits parlants » en quelque sorte « oratoires », comme seront les
portraits du XVIIe siècle.