Marsilio Cassotti and His Bride Faustina

Curatorial Overview

“Portrait of Marsilio Cassotti and His Bride Faustina is an oil-on-panel painting by Italian Renaissance painter Lorenzo Lotto. The painting was created in 1523, after Lotto had settled down in Bergamo, and is currently housed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. The work is signed and dated "Lotus Pictor 1523". It is the first known marriage portrait produced in Italy, preceded by earlier such portraits from Germany and the Netherlands, such as the Arnolfini Portrait.”