The Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome, Peter, Francis and an Unidentified Female Saint
About this artwork
The Christ Child leans over to study a scroll held by the elderly St Jerome, on which Lotto has playfully signed his name (in its Latin form: LOTVS). The stiffness of the child's pose is echoed in the angular folds of Mary's draperies. She acknowledges St Francis with her raised hand. A cloth of honour stretches across the painting separating the foreground group (which also includes St Peter and a female saint) from the landscape behind. The woodcutters felling a tree allude to the wood of the cross and therefore to Christ's Passion. This is an early work, painted by Lotto in about 1505.
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title:The Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome, Peter, Francis and an Unidentified Female Saint
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date created:About 1505
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materials:Oil on canvas, transferred from panel
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measurements:Painted area: 80.50 x 102.50 cm; 82.50 x 105.00 cm (framed: 110 x 134.5 x 12.5cm)
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credit line:Purchased by Private Treaty with the aid of the National Heritage Memorial Fund 1984
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accession number:NG 2418
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photographer:Antonia Reeve
Lorenzo Lotto
Lorenzo Lotto
The Venetian painter Lotto produced highly accomplished portraits, altarpieces and devotional images for patrons in the city and on the mainland. He probably trained in Giovanni Bellini's workshop. His early work reflects the influence of both Bellini and the German artist Dürer, especially in his figures' distinctive facial features and…
