'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.
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.
