Identifier: whatpicturestoseea00brya (find matches)
Title: What pictures to see in America
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Bryant, Lorinda Munson, 1855-1933
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Publisher: New York, J. Lane Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Fig. 77—Virgin and Child in the Sky. Lorenzo Lotto. Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. BROOKLYN 137 to stop on their return and report. A fewhours later the fiends knocked at his windowand swore that all had gone wrong. St. Mi-chael, the angel of Judgment, had laid Henrysgood and evil deeds on the scales and the lat-ter weighed to the earth, but at this point theroasted fellow, as the demons called St. Lau-rence, threw into the light pan the holy cupand defeated them. The central scene repre-sents St. Laurence rescuing souls from purga-tory, and the right hand one shows him dis-tributing alms to the poor. The Virgin and Child in the Sky (Fig.77), by Lorenzo Lotto, nearly two hundredyears later, is a charming picture by a mostindividual Venetian painter. Lorenzo, a deep-ly religious man, was so true to his convic-tions that Aretino, the life-long friend of Ti-tian, wrote of him: O Lotto, good as good-ness, and virtuous as virtue itself! Early inlife he spent four years in Rome

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