Polidoro da Lanciano: Venetian Echoes of Renaissance Genius Polidoro da Lanciano (c. 1515 – 1565), born Alessandro Lanzani in Lanciano, Italy—a town nestled a few miles inland from Ortona on the Adriatic coast—remains an artist shrouded in relative obscurity despite producing remarkable paintings that resonate with Venetian artistic sensibilities of his time. Biographical details are scarce, yet scholarly research suggests he was prof…