Met Image with Landscape in Background

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art:

Brother Gregorio Belo of Vicenza, 1547
Lorenzo Lotto (Italian, Venetian, ca. 1480–1556)
Oil on canvas

34 3/8 x 28 in. (87.3 x 71.1 cm)
Rogers Fund, 1965 (65.117)

The sitter holds a copy of the Homilies of Saint Gregory the Great and beats his breast. The Crucifixion is shown in the background. According to the Libro de spese (account book) of Lorenzo Lotto, the portrait was commissioned on December 9, 1546, and was completed by October 11, 1547.

Related

Maps

• World, 1400–1600 a.d.
• Europe, 1400–1600 a.d.

Timelines

• Venice and Northern Italy, 1400–1600 a.d.

Thematic Essays

• Northern Italian Renaissance Painting
• Sixteenth–Century Painting in Venice and the Veneto
• Portraiture in Renaissance and Baroque Europe

Works of Art by Department

• European Paintings

Index Terms

Artist

• Lotto, Lorenzo (Italian, Venetian, born ca. 1480, died 1556)

Material and Technique

• Painting, Oil on Canvas, Europe, Italian Peninsula

Object

• Religious Art, Christianity, Painting

Subject Matter/Theme

• Figure, Biblical
• Figure, Biblical, New Testament
• Figure, Biblical, New Testament, Crucifixion
• Portrait, Painting
• Portrait, Painting, Europe
• Portrait, Painting, Europe, Italian Peninsula
• Religious Art, Christianity

Artist Biography

• Lotto, Lorenzo (Italian, Venetian, born ca. 1480, died 1556)

Technical Glossary

• Canvas
• Oil Paint