oil on canvas
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1965 (65.117) © 1996 by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Fra Gregorio Belo, 1547 oil on canvas The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1965 (65.117) © 1996 by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
Gregorio Belo was apparently a friend of Lotto's and a friar in the monastic order of Saint Jerome. Belo beats his breast in penitence while meditating on a book of sermons written by his namesake, the church father Gregory the Great. The Crucifixion on the hilltop appears to be a vision transpiring in the mind of the friar, while the stormy, windswept landscape echoes the turbulence in his soul.