Lorenzo Lotto Portraits review: National Gallery show uncovers a forgotten Renaissance master

Matthew Collings | Evening Standard | 5th November 2018

To be blunt, Lotto was out-competed in Venice by Titian. Consequently, he mostly worked in Italy’s lesser towns. There, the talent that may have rankled Venice’s great and good could be fully revealed – portraits with great psychological depth. As one critic has noted, “One of the most interesting painters of the Renaissance rather than one of the best.”