Portrait of a Young Man with an Oil-lamp (detail)
by LOTTO, Lorenzo, Oil on wood
What is new here is the element of disquiet that has entered the composition along with the waves and folds of the white damask curtain. A breeze appears to have blown the curtain aside, and in the darkness, through a tiny wedge-shaped crack along the right edge of the painting, we see the barely noticeable flame of an oil-lamp.