Besides the altarpieces, Lotto’s portraits remain his most successful work. No other artist has demonstrated such a remarkable capacity for renewal and invention.
These remarkable portraits express an elitist delight in the aesthetic and culture of the secular, and especially the secular of the nobility.
Lotto’s portraits seem to have been inspired by the peculiar aesthetic of the madrigal, which in the hands of the most skilled authors demonstrated a capacity for refined, erudite, symbolic allusions. |
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