Ruth Leon recommends… Lorenzo Lotto Portraits – National Gallery
Ruth Leon recommendsLorenzo Lotto Portraits – National Gallery
Matthias Wivel is curator of 16th-century Italian paintings at the National Gallery and co-curator of the exhibition of Lorenzo Lotto Portraits with the Prado Museo in Madrid. This is a talk that he gave to provide visitors to the exhibition with background and insight into the painter’s life and work.
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.
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.
With the inclusion of documents that have survived from Lotto’s own account books, this exhibition – the first of its kind in the UK – provides extraordinary insight into the artist’s individualistic style and the people he portrayed.
Thank you, Mrs Leon!
(By the way, moch more appealing portraits than the the ones from another Lorenzo (Viotti)!
Why not let other people’s see his work