“Unjustly Tormented by Love”: Eros as a Source of Artistic Inspiration in an Epigram for Gian Giorgio Lascaris, Alias Pyrgoteles

Abstract

An artist steeped in the tradition of the classically inspired sculpture that flourished in the Po Valley and the Veneto from the latefifteenth century to the mid-sixteenth century, Gian Giorgio Lascaris (ca. 1458–1531) is now less well known to scholars than Pietro, Antonio, and Tullio Lombardo, Antonio Minello, and Giovan Maria Mosca, the other main exponents of the same artistic current. While Lascaris’s relative obscurity results