He is birth to Venice of 1840 year, is the first by exponents of Venice Renasant by the first part of XV century.
Original et nonconformity.
In his artistic education he choose the lagoon peripheric schools , in course of his study he comes interested and bring respects looking the big artistic centers( Bergamo, Marche).
He works in times with Tiziano where is a Venice dominance in same times , but an eye for his talent comes of part by Bramante, Cesare da Sesto, Sodoma , Domenico Beccafumi and Michelangelo.
Berenson will writing of him: For understand better the XV century, know Lotto is important , when to know Tiziano.
The childhood and adolescence , spends in his city , the first artistic trade is been as the student by Giovanni Bellini and Alvise Vivarini.
The first models is a critic monumentality , his models is been by Bellini one of the more important lacunar painter , his style has a Nordic accents ( Dürer) of him , he takes the realism , the pathos and vision of mysterious nature, meditative with the closed light and zenithal and the light colors , light contours, a style that remains near by Lotto.
At Treviso is the first commissions and the personal success.
What is the works?
Where comes represented ?
Portraits?
Frescoes?
Decorations?
Ritratto di Bernardo de Rossi(bishop), Allegoria della Castità, Sacra Conversazione, Assunta del Duomo di Asolo, Ritratto di giovane con lucerna, decorations of appartaments nei Palazzi Vaticani di papa Giulio II, San Girolamo penitente ora a Castel Sant’ Angelo, Trasfigurazione, Pala di San Bernardino, Pala Martinengo, Susanna e il vecchioni, Commiato di Cristo dalla madre, Pala di Santo Spirito, decorations to oratory private by the ville by family to Trescore Balneario with: Storie delle sante Caterina e Maddalena, Storie di santa Brigida, Storie di santa Barbara, frescoes into little church ” the episode of the life by Maria nella chiesa di Sant Michele al Pozzo Bianco, Natività a Credaro, ritratto del frate Guardiano del convento di Zanipolo, Gentiluomo nello studio, ritratto di Andrea Odoni, Annunciazione di Recanati, San Nicola in gloria, Crocifissione, Santa Lucia davanti al giudice, Madonna del Rosario, Pala della Alabarda, l’ Elemosina di Sant Antonio, opera riche of popular pathos, loving his realism removes rhetoric by Tiziano and the stylized, reffinement , complex of mannerism, Anziano gentiluomo con quanti, il Gentiluomo trentasettenne, La Madonna e santi, La visitazione di Sant Elisabetta, La Santa Veronica e l’ Angelo che regge la testa di Giovanni Battista, ritratto Il Balestriere…
His last canvas is” La presentazione al Tempio” considered of modern criticism his spiritual testament.
He write the book of sales varies, a precious diary for understand his interior world , riche of reflections, his aspirations and the preoccupations.
His death to Loretto of 1557 year , buried to Basilica della Casa di Loreto where to transferred in last years of life giving at institutions all his goods.
His life often comes signed of a meditation, incapacity of renounce in artistic, spiritual field.
He don’t betrays the own ideals , remains a suffered figure, introverted and emotive.
He comes forget in his Venice, afterwards is discovery at end by XVIII century by big critic of art Bernard Berenson.
His style what is represented?
His painting is known with cold light and breakdown of warm and warming atmosphere by tonality.
The gests, looks is with the attitudes meditative and variated.
The monumentally figure is into a shadow crossed of a light with strong contrasts.
Of Raffaello he keep the ideas to enrich the warm tons and corporals , leaving a decline of his traditions Venice formative for a classicism in vogue.
The sequence is expressionists and the schemes enters in a complexity of compositions.
The inventions is original and energetic.
The imagines is keeps of colors : yellow with violet , rose with green, white with brown, a Nordic representation .
For the generations remains a great portraitist( portraits psychologies, people of little nobility, artists, writers, ecclesiastics, don’t is portraits the popes, kinks).
In his painting he search the dialog , change of confidence and the sympathies between herself and an another.
Between a human rapport, to call on at an another, the confidence and warm , the expressivity becomes human.
His sentiment crossing the art as a confessor of interlocuter when met the question , interpreted them as answer.
He fights Christianism with Lutheranism, become humility, ignored in public by Tiziano and his friends.
He don’t speech forever:” admire me , I am the king , the pope, the doge, I am verso the world ; but say that I am make inside , it’s the motives of my melancholy or of my faith , or my sympathy verso others “.
It’s the painter that give the emotions in cold colors bring zenith of north by Europe to his Venice, yellow with violet, rose with green, white with brown , his gests , looks meditative, the human rapport and the energy with emotion.
It’s the rapport of man in dialog with the questions and answers between the realism and painting.
It’s the realism above all of imagination, a change of confidence between him the human part and plastic world of ecclesiastic figure, mystic, commune and divine.
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