Possibly inspired by a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, the Venetian Renaissance painter Lorenzo Lotto painted a novel and famous portrait of a man showing three views of him in one composition. By collapsing three separate instants of viewing into one, Lotto conjures a rupture of time. His liberty with the conventions of portraiture was possible because the sitter, who may be the jeweller Bartolomeo Carpan, was a friend, and unencumbered by high social status.