Brother Gregorio Belo of Vicenza, 1547
Lorenzo Lotto (Italian, Venetian, ca. 1480–1556)
Oil on canvas

34 3/8 x 28 in. (87.3 x 71.1 cm)
Rogers Fund, 1965 (65.117)

The sitter holds a copy of the Homilies of Saint Gregory the Great and beats his breast. The Crucifixion is shown in the background. According to the Libro de spese (account book) of Lorenzo Lotto, the portrait was commissioned on December 9, 1546, and was completed by October 11, 1547.

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Venice and Northern Italy, 1400–1600 a.d.

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Lotto, Lorenzo (Italian, Venetian, born ca. 1480, died 1556)

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Citation

"Lorenzo Lotto (Italian, Venetian): Brother Gregorio Belo of Vicenza (65.117)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/nirp/ho_65.117.htm (October 2006)

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This work has been published in the Museum's Bulletin or Journal. These articles may or may not represent the most current scholarship.

Bayer, Andrea. "North of the Apennines: Sixteenth-Century Italian Painting in Venice and the Veneto." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 63, no. 1 (Summer, 2005).

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