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Venus and Cupid
Lorenzo Lotto · 1520s
- Artist
- Lorenzo Lotto Italian, Venice ca. 1480–1556 Loreto
- Date
- 1520s
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Size
- 36 3/8 x 43 7/8 in. (92.4 x 111.4 cm)
- Where to see it
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Purchase, Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gift, in honor of Marietta Tree, 1986 · CC0 Public Domain · The Met · see it at the museum ↗
Slow Look
- The whole picture Let your eyes wander. Where do they want to rest?
- The light Find the brightest spot. What is it showing you?
- The edges Look at what is half cut off at the borders.
- One small detail Choose one tiny thing and stay with it for a while.
- The whole picture again Step back. Has it changed for you?
About Lorenzo Lotto
Lorenzo Lotto was an Italian Renaissance painter, draughtsman, and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school, though much of his career was spent in other north Italian cities. He painted mainly altarpieces, religious subjects and portraits. He was active during the High Renaissance and the first half of the Mannerist period, but his work maintained a generally similar High Renaissance style throughout his career, although his nervous and eccentric posings and distortions represented a transitional stage to the Florentine and Roman Mannerists.
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