Christ as the Man of Sorrows Supported by Angels

Artist Lorenzo Lotto Italian, b. circa 1480, Venice; d. 1556, Loreto

Datecirca 1516–1525

MediumOil on panel

DimensionsDiam.: 6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm)
Frame: 13 1/2 x 13 1/2 x 2 in. (34.3 x 34.3 x 5.1 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.42

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ProvenanceThe church of SS. Stefano e Domenico, Bergamo, by 1516 (commissioned in May 1513 by Alessandro Colleoni Martinengo di Malpaga); transferred to the monastery of Basella, 1560; transferred to the church of San Bernardino, Borgo San Leonardo, 1564; transferred to the church of San Bartolomeo, Bergamo, 1600; separated from the main altarpiece in 1749; private collection, Milan; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, 1950; gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to the NCMA, 1961.Published ReferencesAnna Banti and Antonio Boschetto, Lorenzo Lotto (Florence: Sansoni, 1953), 72.

L. Coletti, Lotto (1953), 40.

Piero Bianconi, Tutta la pittura di Lorenzo Lotto (Milan: Rizzoli, 1955), 44 (English ed., New York, 1963), 43, illus. pl. 43 (includes diagram of original appearance of the altarpiece--includes Longhi panels).

Bernard Berenson, Lorenzo Lotto (London: The Phaidon Press, 1956), 38, 42-43, illus. pl. 94 (ed. Milan, 1955), 65, illus. figs. 93-4.

The Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960), 86, illus. (b-w) 87, fig. A.

"Cronache-Raleigh: Un Dipinto di Lotto al North Carolina Museum of Art," Emporium 135, no. 806 (February 1962), 87-88.

Piero Bianconi, All the Paintings of Lorenzo Lotto, Part 1, Vol. 16. Complete Library of World Art, transl. by Paul Cloacicchi (London: Oldbourne Press, 1963), 43, illus. pl. 43.

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 4, nos. 2 and 3, (Winter/Spring, 1964), mentioned 3, listed 57.

Giordana Mariana Canova and Rodolfo Pallucchini, L'opera Completa del Lotto, Vol. 79. Classici dell Árte (Milano: Rizzoli Editore, 1974), 95, illus. 94, fig. 48.

Flavio Caroli, Lorenzo Lotto e la nascita della psicologia moderna (Milano: Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri, 1980), illus. p. 257 (label on 256 is incorrect).

Francesco Rossi, et al, Lorenzo Lotto a Bergamo (Bergamo: Accademia Carrara di Bergamo, 1998), CD-ROM.

Catherine Puglisi and William Barcham, eds., Passion in Venice: Crivelli to Tintoretto and Veronese (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Museum of Biblical Art, 2011), cat. no. 45, discussed 120, illus. (color) 121.

Martha Waggoner, “Duke discovers use for laser in art world,” Raleigh: News & Observer (July 8, 2013), 7B.

Deborah Howard, “Contextualising Titian’s 'Sacred and Profane Love': The Cultural World of the Venetian Chancery in the Early Sixteenth Century,” Artibus et Historiae 67 (2013), mentioned 188, illus. 189.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "A Gift to North Carolina: Italian Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection," February 5-April 24, handout no. 9.

New York, NY, Museum of Biblical Art, "Passion in Venice: Crivelli to Tintoretto and Veronese," February 11-June 12, 2011, cat. no. 45, illus. (color).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Venice and the Ottoman Empire," September 28, 2024-January 5, 2025. Object Rights Statement

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