Lorenzo Lotto, Transfiguration of Christ
1510-1512Paintings sorted by Historical period | Painter | Subject matter | Pigments used
St. John’s red robe
Vermilion, chalk, lead-tin-yellow, azurite, and lead white
St. Peter’s blue robe
Azurite, yellow lead-based pigment, orpiment or realgar, carmine lake, vermilion, red ochre, charcoal black, and lead white
St. Elias’ dark green robe
Lead-tin yellow, verdigris, and lead white
Pigment analysis: Hover the mouse over the white points to learn about the pigments used at this spot.
Overview
Medium: oil
Support: panel
Size: 300 × 203 cm
Art period: Renaissance
Museo Civico Villa Colloredo Mels, Recanati, Italy
The painting of biblical Gospel episode Lorenzo Lotto, The Transfiguration of Jesus, was produced in 1510–1512 for the Church of Santa Maria di Castelnuovo.
The pigment analysis is based on the following publication:
Maria Letizia Amadori, et al., Lorenzo Lotto’s painting materials: an integrated diagnostic approach, Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular
Spectroscopy, 164 (2016) 110–122. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.saa.2016.02.043
Overview
Medium: oil
Support: panel
Size: 300 × 203 cm
Art period: Renaissance
Museo Civico Villa Colloredo Mels, Recanati, Italy
The painting of the Gospel episode the Transfiguration of Jesus by Lorenzo Lotto, produced in 1510–1512 for the Church of Santa Maria di Castelnuovo.
The pigment analysis is based on the following publication:
Maria Letizia Amadori, et al., Lorenzo Lotto’s painting materials: an integrated diagnostic approach, Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular
Spectroscopy, 164 (2016) 110–122. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.saa.2016.02.043
Pigment analysis of Lorenzo Lotto, Transfiguration of Christ
Pigments used in this painting
Resources
Videos
Video: Lorenzo Lotto Volume One - A collection of paintings 4K UltraHD by Master Painters
Publications and Websites
Publications
Gianluca Poldi, Antonello da Messina between Sicily and Venice: the San Cassiano altarpiece. Technical examinations and comparisons, Technologische Studien: Konservierung, Restaurierung, Forschung, Technologie / Kunsthistorisches Museum, 6, 2009.
G. Poldi, With or without Flanders: how Antonello da Messina painted, in Antonello da Messina, edited by C. Cardona and G. C.F. Villa, catalogue of the exhibition (Milan, Palazzo Reale, February 21st – June 2nd, 2019), Skira, Milan 2019, pp. 295-301.
James, Sara Nair, Antonello Da Messina: Sicily’s Renaissance Master. The Sixteenth Century Journal 39, no. 3 (2008): 935–36. doi:10.2307/20479124.
Websites
Cavallini to Veronese, A guide to the works of the major Italian Renaissance Painters: Antonello da Messina
The Met, Antonello da Messina
