Renaissance faces: the portraits of Lorenzo Lotto
The Venetian painter excelled at depicting human emotion, as an exhibition in London demonstrates
By Adam Heardman
In September 1503 in Treviso, a city in northern Italy, Bishop Bernardo de’Rossi escaped assassination when a plot on his life was foiled. His reforms, which shifted power back to the church and away from wealthy local families, had created a lot of enemies. Triumphant, the bishop commissioned a portrait from a young painter, Lorenzo Lotto, who had recently arrived in the city.
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