LOTTO, Lorenzo
(b. ca. 1480, Venezia, d. 1556, Loreto)

Bishop Tommaso Negri

1527
Oil on panel
Franciscan Convent of Poljud, Split

In Venice, Lotto produced a series of brilliant portraits in which the depth of psychological exploration was unprecedented and the originality of conception, style, and deployment of pictorial resources was unsurpassed. The e portrait of Bishop Tommaso Negri belongs to this group, together with the Portrait of Andrea Odoni, the Portrait of a Young Man, and the Portrait of a Lady as Lucretia.