Lorenzo Lotto

Born in Venice around 1480, Lorenzo Lotto was an Italian Renaissance painter, draughtsman, and illustrator whose career spanned the High Renaissance and the early Mannerist period. Despite being traditionally associated with the Venetian school, Lotto spent much of his life working in other northern Italian cities, developing a distinctive and individual style that set him apart from his contemporaries like Titian. Lotto's early training is not well documented, but he was cl…