The Museo del Prado and National Gallery in London present “Lorenzo Lotto. Portraits”
The Museo Nacional del Prado and the National Gallery in London present the first major exhibition devoted to the portraiture of Lorenzo Lotto, organized with the sole sponsorship of the BBVA Foundation. Lotto is among the most unique and fascinating artists of the Italian Cinquecento, and indeed is often considered the first modern portraitist, on account of the range and sophistication of his works and the plastic and intellectural resources they employ. The show brings together thirty-eight paintings, ten drawings, one print and a selection of sculptures and other objects similar to those depicted in his portraits, reflective of the material culture of the time, in rooms A and B of the Jerónimos Building. Curated by Enrico Maria dal Pozzolo of the University of Verona, and Miguel Falomir, Director of the Prado, it will remain open to the public from 19 June to 30 September.
15 June, 2018
Lorenzo Lotto (Venice, 1480 – Loreto, 1557) was one of the most unique and fascinating artists of the Italian Cinquecento. His reputation has consistently grown among scholars and art lovers since Bernard Berenson devoted the first monograph to him, Lorenzo Lotto. An Essay in Constructive Criticism, published in 1895. Writing at the time of the emergence of Freudian psychoanalysis, Berenson saw Lotto as the first portraitist to be interested in reflecting his sitters’ states of mind, and as such the first modern one. Although interest in the artist has been particularly notable since the 1980s, until now no exhibition has focused exclusively on the portraits, making this project a pioneering one.