Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Gian Giacomo Bonamigo and his son Niccolò

  • Lorenzo Lotto: Portrait of a surgeon

    During his long peripatetic career the Venetian artist Lorenzo Lotto produced two paintings of medical interest, both in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The earlier painting, also shown as an Art Flash (qv), is of the physician, Giovanni Agostino della Torre and his son Niccolò, dated 1513. This painting, dated 1544, is…