Lorenzo Lotto: Italy's Journeyman Genius

From: The Washington Post | Date: November 2, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

Italian Renaissance painter Lorenzo Lotto was born in Venice in 1480, or maybe a year or two later. We don't know for sure. As punctilious as he was about recording dates, prices and the little outrages visited upon him, Lotto was casual about basic facts. We have an idea of his age only because he described himself in his 1546 will as a Venetian painter of "about 66 years."

He neither married nor established a household or workshop. He died in 1556 or 1557 in Loreto, a Marian shrine town along the Adriatic Sea, having given over his few worldly possessions, including paintings, and ...

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