Scott Nethersole is senior lecturer in Renaissance Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art and the author of ‘Art and Violence in Early Renaissance Florence’ (Yale University Press).

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The Christ Vine and Scenes from the Legend of St Barbara (detail; 1523), Lorenzo Lotto. Suardi Chapel, Trescore Balneario. Photo: Pro Loco Trescore Balneario

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