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Luzzo, Lorenzo
(b Feltre, c. 1485; d Venice, 14 Dec 1526). Italian painter. He signed his works feltrensin (or, on documents, ‘zaroto’), which suggests that he moved between the two cities of Feltre and Venice. He trained first in the circle of Giovanni Bellini and then in that of Giorgione. Works by him documented in Feltre between 1511 and 1522 include frescoes, altarpieces and banners for confraternities. Many are untraced, and exact dating is difficult. His Virgin and Saints (Feltre, Pal. Bellati-Villabruna), with its disturbingly shadowy atmosphere and northern elements, is clearly a deviation from the tradition of Giorgione. St Francis and the Blessed Bernardino Tomitiano (both oil on panel; Feltre, S Maria degli Angeli), probably parts of a polyptych, are reminiscent of Bartolomeo Montagna. The Virgin and Saints (1511; Berlin, Bodemus.) came from S Stefano (destr.) in Feltre; there were also frescoes by Luzzo on the façade of this church and on the adjacent Loggia Pubblica. The attribution to him of the Lamentation (Feltre, Mus. Civ.) has provoked debate. An altarpiece of the Virgin and Saints (Feltre, Mus. Civ.) has drawings by Luzzo on the back. He also executed frescoes on façades of houses in Feltre, of Curtius Flinging himself into the Gulf, a Nymph and Satyr, Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery and St Christopher; these, and especially Christ with SS Anthony Abbot and Lucy on the church of Ognissanti, Feltre, testify to a monumental manner based on a knowledge of the works of Raphael and, very probably, a journey to Rome. Venturi (1910) established that Luzzo cannot be identified with the Morto da Feltre in Vasari’s account, which is probably a conflation of two separate artists.
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