Lorenzo Lotto, Italian
His Royal “High”ness, the Duke of Ridgemontio, Spicoli de Medici, ca. 1506-08
Oil on panel
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Info about this artist is pointed to by my comment at another blog entry.
/// This ancestor of Ridgemont’s Spicoli
also sought “perfect waves”— (to him holy).
Not to surf, to be fair,
these are waves in his hair,
and in class he would eat ravioli.
/// His descendant lives in a new land,
where in High School a meal he had planned.
Pizza with extra cheese,
which does nothing to please
his instructor that day, Mr. Hand.
/// Here, Broccardo, unlike future kin,
has some pimples erupt on his skin.
He cannot go on dates
with that babe, Phoebe Cates;
(he’d consider such “therapy” sin.)
/// “Portrait of a Young Man…” sources claim,
“…with a Lamp” is this oil painting’s name.
The young man fills the frame,
but a lamp— what’s the game?
In the upper right corner’s a flame.
/// This young man is a bit of a scamp,
so they won’t let him pose near the lamp.
Since with flames he might play
the lamp’s hidden away
and the curtain between them is damp.