To mark its monographic exhibition of Lorenzo Lotto's work, the is organizing a cycle of five lectures in the Sala Cinema auditorium of the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, to offer the public a chance to explore the issues raised in the exhibition in greater depth.  Lorenzo Lotto, who was born in Venice in about 1480, is now an endless source of attraction and of conflicting interpretations after centuries of obscurity.  It was in 1895 that Bernard Berenson, the great art historian of Lithuanian origin, rediscovered the work of this important Italian Renaissance master and revealed his astonishing modernity at a moment when psychoanalysis was beginning to appear on the scene ahead of the turn of the century, offering society new tools for interpretation and altering its sensibilities - also in relation to art.
More than one hundred years after the sense of revelation and enchantment that filled that first essay devoted entirely to Lorenzo Lotto, the exhibition at the offers the public a chance to renew that emotion, coupled with a more multifaceted, deeper and more complex exploration and interpretation of the artist and his work, provided by some of Italy's most distinguished art historians and experts.