The sitter has been identified as the Marchese Giovanni Battista Cattaneo on the basis of the inscription on the letter. This identification appears to be confirmed by the picture's provenance. The painting is first recorded in the Cattaneo family collect ...
This is probably a portrait of the Venetian merchant, Giovanni della Volta & his family described in Lotto's account book between 1538 & 1547. No other portrait of a man, woman & two children by Lotto is known. The action is focused on the bowl of cherries on the table. The mother offers cherries to her daughter, while the father offers them to his son, who seems to dance before him in the foreground. The table with its elaborately patterned Turkish carpet is central to the painting. This is of a type frequently represented by Lotto (hence known as a ' Lotto carpet') & has yellow arabesques on a red field, & a Kufic border. ...
Born in Verona, Fracastoro was a celebrated medical doctor, as well as an astronomer, mathematician and poet. He acquired great fame for being the first to identify the disease syphilis. The painting of his spotted lynx coat is particularly arresting.
Born in Verona, Fracastoro was a celebrated medical doctor, as well as an astronomer, mathematician & poet. He acquired great fame for being the first to identify the disease syphilis. The painting of his spotted lynx coat is particularly arresting.
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