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Article: The bride's jewellery: Lorenzo Lotto's wedding portrait of Marsilio & Faustina Cassotti: the significance of virtue, fertility and a healthy dowry in 16th-century north Italian society can all be read in the symbolism of a wedding portrait by Lorenzo Lotto.
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Lorenzo Lotto's humorous look at the burdensome yoke of marriage has long been recognised as representing Marsilio Cassotti slipping a wedding ring onto the finger of his bride (Figs. 1 and 9). Much has been made of the picture's nuptial imagery: the evergreen laurel branch symbolising both virtue and eternity and the sly pun on conjugal ties, as Cupid quite literally uses it to bind them together congiogo (with a yoke). (1) Yet, little attention has been paid to the bride's jewellery, although Lotto himself thought it important enough to mention in the account he drew up for his patron, Zanin Cassotti. For an artist whose emblematic portraits are often filled with a ...
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Article: Lorenzo Lotto: Italy's Journeyman Genius
The Washington Post;
November 2, 1997 ;
700+ words
...Italian Renaissance painter Lorenzo Lotto was born in Venice in 1480, or maybe a year or two later. We don't know for sure. As punctilious as he was about recording ...
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