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MY IDENTIFICATION OF A SELF-PORTRAIT BY LORENZOLOTTO (1480 -1557) IN THE “PREDELLA MARTINENGO”AND OF A CONNECTED REBUS IN THE SAME PICTURE .
By Maurizio Sorelli, Bergamo, Italy
Abstract
I present my identification of a self-portrait as a Dominican Friar by the great venetian painter Lorenzo Lotto (1480-1557) in the well-known painting “Saint Dominic reviving Napoleon Orsini”(1516), at the Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti, Bergamo, Italy. I have also discovered a rebusconnected with the self-portrait, in the same picture, which sends again to another rebus in another  painting by Lotto, the “Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine” (1523), in the same picture Gallery. I propose my solutions for the two rebuses and present a few correlated questions (please see fullarticle in Italian for further details) .
Hi Lorenzo, see you at the Accademia !
If you are at the Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti in Bergamo, Italy, you will be able to look straightat Lorenzo Lotto's eyes . I had always been convinced that the look of the great painter of VenetianRenaissance was as his drawing “Portrait of a bearded Man” in the Uffizi, Florence, shows us : anhonest face, with the eyes of an often ill-treated man .That morning in june 2007, at the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo I realized for the first time that inthe well-known painting “Saint Dominic reviving Napoleon Orsini, nephew of the Cardinal of Fossanova” (1516) by Lorenzo Lotto, the Dominican Friar with the red book, observing us behind aCardinal Bishop, in the picture, has the same face as the “Bearded Man” by Lotto, of the UffiziCabinet of Drawings , has .Searching for proofs about the reality of my identification , I noticed that Napoleon Orsini' s full cutmantle appears, in the picture, like a perfect O (O for Orsini ?) ; S. Dominic's contour looks like a D(D for Dominic) ; the profile of Cardinal Stephen Fossanova's body and train draws a S with asuperimposed F (S and F for Stephen Fossanova) and the Friar' s arms look like two L's (for Lorenzo Lotto) .So, alphabetic letters are associated with some men, in that painting, by means of the initials of thefirst and/or last name of them .The Dignitary on the left, the only fellow with a striped suit (we know his name: Nicolò Bonghi)shows his cloack on his left arm wrapped in a quite strange way : you see it forms a capital B, while
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