Lorenzo Lotto Marche

The life of Lorenzo Lotto was often marked by restlessness due to the inability of compromises in the art or even spiritual. He never tried the easy success and therefore they repeatedly find themselves in financial difficulties. Rather than betray their ideals preferred a wandering life in search of clients who could understand and appreciate. After a brief period in which enjoyed a certain reputation, and was forgotten in his Venice, even mocked. [2] After centuries of oblivion, his figure was rediscovered in the late nineteenth century by the great art critic Bernard Berenson who retraced the routes of pilgrimage Lotto revealing little by little a great Renaissance artist, who later became known to the general public. Berenson wrote of him: "To understand the sixteenth century, know Lotto is as important as knowing Titian" [2].
The reconstruction of the biographical and artistic Lot is based on a number of autograph letters, especially related to the period from Bergamo, the Old Testament and the Book of various expenditures, that is, his personal record of income and expenses, taking in the last years of life . In addition, many works are dated and signed.