L adoration des bergners lorenzo lotto biography

Italian painter (c. –/57)

Lorenzo Lotto (c. &#; /57) was an Italian Renaissance painter, draughtsman, and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school, though much of his career was spent in other north Italian cities. He painted mainly altarpieces, religious subjects and portraits. He was active during the High Renaissance and the first half of the Mannerist period, but his work maintained a generally similar High Renaissance style throughout his career, although his nervous and eccentric posings and distortions represented a transitional stage to the Florentine and Roman Mannerists.

Overview

During his lifetime Lotto was a well-respected painter and certainly popular in Northern Italy; he is traditionally included in the Venetian School, but his independent career actually places him outside the Venetian art scene. He was certainly not as highly regarded in Venice as in the other towns where he worked, for he had a stylistic individuality, even

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Adoration of the Shepherds (Giorgione) - Wikipedia

En , Lorenzo Lotto peint "L'Adoration des Bergers", une œuvre très réaliste qui est en fait un portrait familial représentant la famille des Gusson, les bergers seraient deux frères jumeaux, la Vierge aurait le visage de l'épouse de l'un des deux et les Anges, ceux de leurs filles.