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| Brother Gregorio Belo of Vicenza |
Artist:Lorenzo Lotto (Italian, Venice ca. 1480–1556 Loreto)
Date:1547
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:34 3/8 x 28 in. (87.3 x 71.1 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1965
Fra Gregorio was a member of the order of the Hieronymites, or Poor Hermits of Saint Jerome. The artist was friendly with members of this community in Venice and nearby Treviso, and was probably in harmony with their evangelical fervor and ideals. The friar expresses these ideals through his gestures, as he beats his chest (Saint Jerome was often depicted in this way), and by reading the Homilies of Saint Gregory the Great. This reading would have led him to meditate on the Crucifixion, shown in the background in a vignette of deeply felt emotion.
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