AGNES’s galleries are closed 13–30 November for exhibition turnover.
Scheduled public programs are still ongoing.

00:00
/
00:00
Unknown Artist (after Lorenzo Lotto)
A Goldsmith Seen from Three Sides (Bartolomeo Carpan?)
Around 1628

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.

 
Unknown Artist (after Lorenzo Lotto)
Seventeenth century
A Goldsmith Seen from Three Sides (Bartolomeo Carpan?)
Around 1628
Oil on canvas
61.3 x 77.2 cm
Gift of Alfred and Isabel Bader, 1986
29-004

Subscribe to our “This Week at Agnes” e-newsletter to stay abreast of events, news and opportunities at the art museum.