id: 127571
accession number: 1950.250
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Portrait of a Man, possibly Girolamo Rosati, 1533–34. Lorenzo Lotto (Italian, 1480-1556). Oil on canvas; framed: 135.9 x 128 x 8.6 cm (53 1/2 x 50 3/8 x 3 3/8 in.); unframed: 108.2 x 100.5 cm (42 5/8 x 39 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund 1950.250
title: Portrait of a Man, possibly Girolamo Rosati
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creation date: 1533–34
creation date earliest: 1533
creation date latest: 1534
current location: 118 Italian Renaissance
creditline: Gift of the Hanna Fund
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culture: Italy, 16th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: P - Italian 16th & 17th Century
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Lorenzo Lotto (Italian, 1480-1556) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 135.9 x 128 x 8.6 cm (53 1/2 x 50 3/8 x 3 3/8 in.); Unframed: 108.2 x 100.5 cm (42 5/8 x 39 9/16 in.)
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inscription: Signed lower right: ".L. Lotus 15[...]"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Venetian Tradition
opening date: 1956-11-08T05:00:00
The Venetian Tradition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (November 8, 1956-January 1, 1957).
title: In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.
opening date: 1958-03-04T05:00:00
In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958).
title: Style, Truth and the Portrait
opening date: 1963-10-02T04:00:00
Style, Truth and the Portrait. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 19, 1963).
title: Renaissance Venice and the North: Crosscurrents in the time of Bellini, Dürer, and Titian
opening date: 1999-09-05T00:00:00
Renaissance Venice and the North: Crosscurrents in the time of Bellini, Dürer, and Titian. Palazzo Grassi spa, 30124 Venice, Italy (organizer) (September 5, 1999-January 9, 2000).
title: Lorenzo Lotto
opening date: 2011-02-25T00:00:00
Lorenzo Lotto. Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, Italy (organizer) (February 25-June 12, 2011).
title: Lorenzo Lotto, Portraits
opening date: 2018-06-18T04:00:00
Lorenzo Lotto, Portraits. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain (organizer) (June 18-September 30, 2018).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (1933-1939) (lent by Bruikleen von Ofenheim).
* Italiaansche Kunst in Nederlandsche bezit. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (May 11-October 1, 1934).
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PROVENANCE
Imperial collection, Vienna;
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- 1923 Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna, Austria), sold to Moritz Lindemann, 1923;
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1923 Moritz Lindemann (Vienna, Austria),sold to Wilhelm von Ofenheim, 1923;
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1923 - 1930 Wilhelm von Ofenheim, 1860-1930 (Vienna, Austria), upon his death, held in trust by his heirs, 1930;
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1930 - 1939 Von Ofenheim family trust, sold to Rosenberg and Stiebel, 1939;
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[Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1950.
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fun fact:
This fashionable man broadcasts his wealth by wearing a fur-lined velvet and satin outfit with expensive gold jewelry.
digital description:
The gesture of the elegantly dressed man is a mystery. Is he rising from his chair to address someone or is he pointing to something outside the frame? His right hand rests on a piece of paper (a letter?), while on the table are clover—a symbol of abundance, good fortune, and happy marriage—and jasmine, associated with purity and love, further emphasized by the roses on the trellis. There may have been a companion portrait of the sitter’s bride, to whom he acknowledges his devotion. Another recent interpretation identifies the sitter as Girolamo Rosati, a high official in Fermo, on Italy’s east coast. The paper may be a design for one of his important architectural projects, to which he may be pointing in the distance. The interrupted moment is a naturalistic touch characteristic of Lotto, quite distinct from the formality of the other Italian Renaissance portraits in the museum's collection. Though this portrait clearly articulates the man’s status, Lotto emphasizes his individuality and interiority as much as a socially constructed identity.
wall description:
The gesture of the elegantly dressed man is a mystery. Is he rising from his chair to address someone or is he pointing to something outside the frame? His right hand rests on a piece of paper (a letter?), while on the table are clover—a symbol of abundance, good fortune, and happy marriage—and jasmine, associated with purity and love, further emphasized by the roses on the trellis. There may have been a companion portrait of the sitter’s bride, to whom he acknowledges his devotion. Another recent interpretation identifies the sitter as Girolamo Rosati, a high official in Fermo, on Italy’s east coast. The paper may be a design for one of his important architectural projects, to which he may be pointing in the distance. The interrupted moment is a naturalistic touch characteristic of Lotto, quite distinct from the formality of the other portraits in this gallery. Though this portrait clearly articulates the man’s status, Lotto emphasizes his individuality and interiority as much as a socially constructed identity.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Thieme, Ulrich, Felix Becker, Fred. C. Willis, and Hans Vollmer. Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Leipzig, Germany: W. Engelmann, 1907.
page number: Reproduced: vol. XXIII, 412
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Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works, with an Index of Places. Oxford, United Kingdom : The Clarendon Press, 1932.
page number: Reproduced: p. 312
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
page number: Reproduced: p. 367; Mentioned: p. 366-368
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Francis, Henry S. "Portrait of a Nobleman by Lorenzo Lotto." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XXXVIII, (1951): 22-23.
page number: Reproduced: p. 38, 46
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Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisition Press Release,” January 4, 1951, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr4558
Banti, Anna. Lorenzo Lotto di Anna Banti. Firenze, Italy: Sansoni, 1953.
page number: Mentioned: p. 39; Reproduced: p. 82, pl. 159
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Coletti, Luigi. Lotto. Bergamo, Italy: Istituto italiano d'arti grafiche, 1953.
page number: Reproduced: p. 45, pl. 117
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Pignatti, Teresio. Lorenzo Lotto; 147 tavole in nero, 4 tavole a colori. Milano, Italy: Mondadori, 1953.
page number: Reproduced: p. 120, pl. 93
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Berenson, Bernard. Lotto. Milano, Italy: Electa Editrice, 1955.
page number: Reproduced: p. 126, pl. 172
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Berenson, Bernard. Lorenzo Lotto. London, United Kingdom: Phaidon Press, 1956.
page number: Reproduced: p.94, pl. 172, 172a
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Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance; A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works with an Index of Places. Venetian School. New York, NY: Phaidon Publishers; distributed by Garden City Books, 1957.
page number: Reproduced: p. 101, vol. 1
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Francis, Henry S. "Portraits by Lorenzo Lotto." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XLIV, (1957): 44.
page number: Reproduced: p. 44
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 413
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n76
Milliken, William Mathewson. The Cleveland Museum of Art. New York, NY: H.N. Abrams, 1958.
page number: Reproduced: p. 34
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Cappi Bentivegna, Ferruccia. Abbigliamento e costume nella pittura italiana; rinascimento. Roma, Italy: Bestetti, Edizioni d'arte, 1962.
page number: Reproduced: p. 236. fig. 333
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 97
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n121
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 97
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n121
Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972.
page number: Mentioned: p. 112, 521, 574
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L'opera completa del Lotto. Milano, Italy: Rizzoli, 1975.
page number: Reproduced: p. 107; Mentioned: p. 108
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 106
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n126
Caroli, Flavio. Lorenzo Lotto et la nascita della psicologia moderna. Milano, Italy: Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri, 1980.
page number: Mentioned: p. 264; Reproduced: p. 265
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"1993 Annual Report." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 6 (1994): 143-218.
page number: Mentioned: p. 170; Reproduced p. 148
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161457
Brown, David Alan, Peter Humfrey, Mauro Lucco, and Augusto Gentili. Lorenzo Lotto: Rediscovered Master of the Renaissance. Washington DC: National Gallery of Art, 1997.
page number: Reproduced: p. 47, fig. 6
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Aikema, Bernard, Beverly Louise Brown, and Giovanna Nepi Scirè. Renaissance Venice and the North: Crosscurrents in the Time of Bellini, Dürer, and Titian. Milano, Italy: Bompiani, 1999.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 384-385
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Rossi, Francesco. Bergamo, l'altra Venezia: il Rinascimento negli anni di Lorenzo Lotto, 1510-1530. Milano, Italy: Skira, 2001.
page number: Reproduced: p. 57, fig. 13
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Dezuanni, Elsa, Eugenio Manzato, and Giovanni Carlo Federico Villa. Lorenzo Lotto: emozioni nascoste. Crocetta del Montello, Treviso, Italy: Antiga, 2011.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 224-225
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Frangi, Francesco and Maria Cristina Passoni. Attorno a Lotto: Naturalismo e Psicologia nel Ritratto Rinascimentale. Milano: Skira, 2017.
page number: Reproduced: p. 30, fig. 8
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Dal Pozzolo, Enrico Maria. Lorenzo Lotto:Il Richiamo delle Marche: Luoghi, Tempi e Persone. Milano: Skira, 2018.
page number: Mentioned: p. 75; Reproduced: p. 76, fig. 5
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Dal Pozzolo, E. M. "Two Paitnings of Samson by Lorenzo Lotto at Charlecote Park." The Burlington Magazine 160. no. 1385 (Aug. 2018): 640-645.
page number: Mention: p. 26
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Dossier de l'art. "Exposition a Londres: Lorenzo Lotto Portraitiste." Dossier de l'art 264, (Nov. 2018): 4-13.
page number: Reproduced: p. [4-5], 12
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du Bourg, Alexis Marle. "Lorenzo Lottoe Portaitiste." Dossier De L'Art, 364 (November 2018): 4-13.
page number: Reproduced: pp. 4-5, 12.
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Pozzolo, Enrico Maria Dal. Lorenzo Lotto: Portraits. Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado, 2018.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 29, p. 42, 284-286
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