# Portrait of a Married Couple [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LOTTO, Lorenzo]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 96 x 116 cm ## Commentary Portrait of a Married Couple 1523-24 Oil on canvas, 96 x 116 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg During the years spent in Bergamo, Lotto repeatedly had the opportunity to develop his skill as a portraitist, sometimes including more than one sitter in the painting. Various symbolic features \(among which the detail of the squirrel at the centre of the composition, barely seen in the reproduction, stands out\) transform this painting into a eulogy of marital fidelity. The inscription 'Homo nunquam' held by the husband is reference to the matrimonial fidelity. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Allegory of Chastity detail\)]() - [Allegory of Chastity \("Maiden's Dream"\)]() - [Allegory of Virtue and Vice \(detail\)]() - [Allegory of Virtue and Vice]() - [Angel Annunciating]() - [Angel of the Annunciation]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation]() - [Architect]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()