Lorenzo Lotto: a master artist at the Scuderie del Quirinale

Lorenzo Lotto, Annunciation, Pinacoteca Comunale, Recanati

I remember seeing this artwork, the "Annunciation" by Lorenzo Lotto in Melbourne about nine years ago. This work was the cover of the book: "Titian to Tiepolo: Three centuries of Italian Art", an exhibition which traveled around Australia and other continents with a selection of Italian artworks, including Lorenzo Lotto's Annunciation from Recanati.

This year the Scuderie del Quirinale celebrates this artist with a wonderful exhibition: it will consider the whole story of the artist painting, his existential works within the triangle Treviso, Bergamo and some small towns in the Marche by highlighting and enhancing the poetry of a man of the fifteenth century, his successful and  completely original and independent works to reconcile the traditional elements of great painting of his time, anticipating the Baroque era.

Lorenzo, in fact, starting from the suggestions of compositions by Giovanni Bellini, Antonello da Messina, learned to look into the human soul to tell us a story. Just think of those light flashes or the cold way of cutting perspective planes: they are the antithesis of the soft and the merger of coloristic contemporary Giorgione. Its composition is held, instead, according to tight schedules, highlighted by the intertwining of looks and attitudes varied characters, often set in an particular atmosphere but linked by the realism of the details and with a view of nature felt as a mysterious and disturbing. 

A complex human story, then, narrated through a selection of key works, will help the viewer to love Lorenzo Lotto. 

The art exhibition will be at the Scuderie del Quirinale between March 2nd and june 12th. Don't miss it!!