Resumen de A new Lotto portrait in Berlin
An inscription has enabled a previously unpublished portrait study in oil on paper in the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin to be identified as a portrait by Lorenzo Lotto. This striking, highly informal portrait, sketched on the back of a letter or leaf from a notebook or journal, shows an aging, lightly bearded sitter, manifestly painted from life, who is sensitively captured in a moment of pensive reflection. Clearly spelled out on the back of it is an inscription, written in what appears to be a 16th-century hand, which translates as “a portrait from life by master Lorenzo Lotto of Venice.” The writer goes on to try and place it within Lotto's oeuvre.
