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| Lorenzo Lotto The Crucifixion 1531 oil on panel Chiesa di Santa Maria della Pietà in Telusiano, Monte San Giusto |
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| Lorenzo Lotto The Crucifixion (detail) 1531 oil on panel Chiesa di Santa Maria della Pietà in Telusiano, Monte San Giusto |
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| Lorenzo Lotto The Crucifixion (detail) 1531 oil on panel Chiesa di Santa Maria della Pietà in Telusiano, Monte San Giusto |
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| Lorenzo Lotto The Crucifixion (detail) 1531 oil on panel Chiesa di Santa Maria della Pietà in Telusiano, Monte San Giusto |
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| Lorenzo Lotto The Crucifixion (detail) 1531 oil on panel Chiesa di Santa Maria della Pietà in Telusiano, Monte San Giusto |
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| Lorenzo Lotto Portrait of a Dominican 1525 oil on panel Musei Civici di Treviso |
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| Lorenzo Lotto Portrait of a Dominican (detail) 1525 oil on panel Musei Civici di Treviso |
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| Lorenzo Lotto Madonna and Child with St Jerome and St Nicholas of Tolentino 1522 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Lorenzo Lotto Madonna and Child with St Jerome and St Nicholas of Tolentino (detail) 1522 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Lorenzo Lotto Mystic Marriage of St Catherine 1524 oil on panel Palazzo Barberini, Rome |
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| Lorenzo Lotto Recanati Polyptych (Pietà) 1506-1508 oil on panel Museo Civico, Villa Colloredo Mels, Recanati |
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| Lorenzo Lotto Recanati Polyptych (Angel Musicians) 1506-1508 oil on panel Museo Civico, Villa Colloredo Mels, Recanati |
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| Lorenzo Lotto Recanati Polyptych (St Catherine of Siena and St Sigismund) 1506-1508 oil on panel Museo Civico, Villa Colloredo Mels, Recanati |
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| Lorenzo Lotto Recanati Polyptych (St Lucy and St Vincent Ferrer) 1506-1508 oil on panel Museo Civico, Villa Colloredo Mels, Recanati |
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| Lorenzo Lotto Recanati Polyptych (St Vitus) 1506-1508 oil on panel Museo Civico, Villa Colloredo Mels, Recanati |
"Lorenzo Lotto was one of the leading Venetian-trained painters of the earlier 16th century. He painted portraits and religious works exclusively. His early works are strongly influenced by Giovanni Bellini. Unable to compete with Titian, Lotto worked mainly outside Venice. He is recorded at Treviso in 1503, then in the Marches, and in Rome, probably in 1508. From 1513 to 1525 he resided mainly at Bergamo in Lombardy, where he painted several major altarpieces. A period in Venice from 1526, with long absences, was followed by his retirement to a religious establishment at Loreto in 1552. Lotto's later paintings are recorded in an account book and diary which he kept from 1538. His works are characterised by the use of deeply saturated colours, bold use of shadow, and a surprising expressive range, from the nearly caricatural to the lyrical. He is one of the most individualistic of the great Italian painters."
– from curator's notes at the National Gallery, London
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| Lorenzo Lotto Self Portrait ca. 1540-50 oil on panel Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |