.:. art / a Renaissance riddle solved 

Giovanni Agostino da Lodi
May 26 through September 13, 2026

One of the most original painters active in Italy around 1500, and one of the least known, Giovanni Agostino da Lodi spent decades hiding in plain sight. In fact, his only signed painting has been in Brera's collection all along.
.:. His story is a peculiar one. Art historians spent much of the early 20th century calling him Pseudo Boccaccino – a placeholder name coined in 1890 by Wilhelm von Bode – before scholarship finally caught up with his real identity and stature in the late 1990s. Trained in Milan under the influence of Bramante and Bramantino, he then moved to Venice, where he absorbed Alvise Vivarini and Giorgione, was visibly moved by Albrecht Dürer's second Venetian stay (1505–07), and developed a style of quietly unsettling refinement.
.:. The artist's first-ever solo exhibition retraces his career through forty-six works: his own paintings alongside those of the contemporaries he learned from and sparred with, namely Bramantino, Giovanni Bellini, Giorgione, Lorenzo Lotto, Dürer, and Girolamo Romanino. Major loans from the Louvre in Paris, the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the Galleria Borghese in Rome, the Prado in Madrid, the Thyssen-Bornemisza also in Madrid and the National Gallery in London make this exhibition a definitive account.

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