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{{Short description|1505 painting by Lorenzo Lotto}}
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{{Infobox artwork
| image_file=Lorenzo Lotto 042.jpg
| title=Portrait of Bishop Bernardo de' Rossi
| artist=[[Lorenzo Lotto]]
| year=1505
| medium=Oil on panel
| height_metric=54.7
| width_metric=41.3
| metric_unit=cm
| imperial_unit=in
| city=Naples
| museum=National Museum of  Capodimonte
}}
The '''''Portrait of Bishop Bernardo de' Rossi''''' is an [[oil-on-panel]] painting by the [[Italy|Italian]] [[High Renaissance]] painter [[Lorenzo Lotto]], dating to 1505. It is housed in the [[National Museum of Capodimonte]] of [[Naples]], [[southern Italy]].
The work dates to Lotto's stay in [[Treviso]], and featured a cover with title, signature and dates, identified as the ''[[Allegory of Virtues and Vices (Lotto)|Allegory of Virtues and Vices]]'' now at the [[National Gallery of Art]] in [[Washington, DC|Washington]], [[United States]]. The portrait was brought to [[Parma]] by [[Bernardo de' Rossi]] when he fled there in 1524. Here it became part of the [[house of Farnese|Farnese]] collection, which was transferred to Naples  in 1760.
==Description==
The painting shows the donor's bust from three-quarters, the face looking at the viewer. As in other portraits by Lotto, the subject is portrayed with a striking realism, including the reddish complexion, the hollows under the eyes, the expressive blue eyes and the light epidermic imperfections.   The curly hair is partially getting out from the black [[biretta]]. Such an attention to details was inspired by [[Antonello da Messina]], in turn influenced by the [[early Netherlandish paintings|Flemish art]] and perhaps directly by Northern European artists such as [[Albrecht Dürer]], whose drawings could have been seen by Lotto
The red mantel is backed by a green embroidered drapery, a common element of Venetian painting of the period. The roll is perhaps an allusion to the sentence against the conjurers who had attempted to de Rossi's life two years before.
The ''Allegory'' has an inscription on its reverse which describes the portrait:
{|
! width="190px" align="left" | Inscription
! width="190px" align="left" | English translation
|-
| BERNARD. RVBEVS || Bernardo Rossi
|-
| BERCETI COM. PONT || of Berceta, Papal Count [Bishop]
|-
| TARVIS. NAT. || of Treviso, age
|-
| ANN. XXXVI. MENS. X.D.V. ||36 years, 10 months, 5 days,
|-
| LAVRENT.LOTVS P. CAL. || Painted by Lorenzo Lotto,
|-
| IVL. M.D.V. || July 1, 1505
|}
==See also==
*[[Allegory of Virtues and Vices (Lotto)|''Allegory of Virtues and Vices'' (Lotto)]]
*''[[Portrait of a Young Man with White Drape]]''
==Sources==
*{{cite book|title=Lotto|first=Carlo|last=Pirovano|publisher=Electa|location=Milan|year=2002}}
{{Lorenzo Lotto}}
[[Category:1505 paintings]]
[[Category:Portraits by Lorenzo Lotto|de Rossi]]
[[Category:Paintings in the Museo di Capodimonte]]