Lotto carpet

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Western Anatolia knotted wool ‘Lotto carpet’, 16th century, Saint Louis Art Museum
Western Anatolia knotted wool ‘Lotto carpet’, 16th century, Saint Louis Art Museum
'The Alms of St. Anthony', oil on wood painting by Lorenzo Lotto, showing a Lotto carpet
'The Alms of St. Anthony', oil on wood painting by Lorenzo Lotto, showing a Lotto carpet

A Lotto carpet is a hand knotted carpet having a pattern that was primarily produced during the 16th and 17th centuries along the Aegean coast of Anatolia, Turkey. It is characterized by a lacy arabesque, usually in yellow on a red ground. The name, Lotto carpet, refers to the inclusion of carpets with this pattern in paintings by the 16th century Venetian painter Lorenzo Lotto.

[edit] References

  • Brown, David Alan, Peter Humfrey and Mauro Lucco Lorenzo Lotto: Rediscovered Master of the Renaissance, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1997.
  • Mack, Rosamond E., Bazaar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and Italian Art, 1300-1600, Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2002.