Lorenzo Lotto : rediscovered master of the Renaissance / David Alan Brown, Peter Humfrey, Mauro Lucco ; with contributions by Augusto Gentili [and others]

Washington New Haven : National Gallery of Art ; Yale University Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 237 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 28 cm. Notes; Catalog of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Nov. 2, 1997 to Mar. 1, 1998; at the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, Italy, Apr. 2 to June 28, 1998; and at the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Oct. 12, 1998-Jan. 11, 1999. Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-235) and index.Texts by Mauro Lucco and Augusto Gentili translated from the Italian by Susan Scott Cesaritti. Text by Adriano Prosperi translated from the Italian by T. Barton Thurber. Contents; Introduction / David Alan Brown -- Lorenzo Lotto: life and work with a chronology / Peter Humfrey -- The figurative sources / Mauro Lucco -- The religious crisis in early Sixteenth-Century Italy / Adriano Prospers -- The patrons' role / Louisa Matthew -- The stories, the metaphors / Augusto Gentili -- The portraits / Wendy Stedman Sheard -- The frescoes / Peter Humfrey -- Lotto: a carpet connoisseur / Rosamond Mack -- CATALOGUE: The early works / David Alan Brown -- Bergamo / Mauro Lucco -- The later works in Venice and the Marches / Peter Humfrey. Subjects; Lotto, Lorenzo 1480?-1556? ; Exhibitions. National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.) ; Exhibitions. Painters Italy ; Biography. Painting, Italian. Painting, Renaissance Italy. Art, Renaissance. Painters, Italian 15th century. Painters, Italian 16th century.