Focus on Portrait of Andrea Odoni and analyze the Description.
The horizontal format, with which Lotto had already experimented for portraits of couples, was adopted here for a single subject, a merchant Renaissance humanist portrayed as though among his collection of marbles from Classical antiquity. Most of the pieces are identifiable and well-known, and are shown here either as other versions (some reduced in size) or as plaster casts.  The head of the Emperor Hadrian in the right-hand foreground probably does represent a piece Odoni owned, a cast of piece now in Naples.  Others may have belonged to Lotto's studio rather than to Odoni.The man wears a rich, dark, fur-lined jacket. He sits next to a table, on which there lies a book and some ancient coins. In his hand he holds a small statue of Diana of Ephesus. The other hand touching the heart is a gesture characteristic of Lotto's work.
Diana of Ephesus Naples Hadrian Renaissance humanist Odoni