Lotto's Renaissance works speak to the modern age.(Arts)(Art)

From: The Washington Times (Washington, DC) | Date: November 2, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

Poor Lorenzo Lotto.

His Italian Renaissance contemporaries Titian and Raphael beat him out for the big painting commissions of their time. Titian, the all-time supreme manipulator of color and light, even drove Lotto (circa 1480-1557) from his native Venice.

Titian was just too great a talent, in High Renaissance terms, for Lotto to compete with. So was Raphael in Rome, where Lotto had painted frescoes for the Vatican Palace. Pope Julius II "threw them to the floor," as reported by the historian Vasari, so that Raphael's could replace them.

Now, however, the ...

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