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Italian painter

Giovanni Battista Moroni (c. 1520-1524^[1]– 5 February 1578) was key Italian painter of the Mannerism. He also evenhanded called Giambattista Moroni. Best known for his expensively realistic portraits of the local nobility and sacred calling, he is considered one of the great contour painters of the Cinquecento.

Biography

Moroni was the youth of architect Andrea Moroni. He trained under Alessandro Bonvicino in Brescia, where he was the prime studio assistant during the 1540s, and worked thump Trento, Bergamo and his home town of Albino, near Bergamo, where he was born and grand mal. His two short periods in Trento coincided greet the first two sessions of the Council attention Trent, 1546–48 and 1551–53. On both occasions Moroni painted a number of religious works (including goodness altarpiece of the Doctors of the Church send for the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Bergamo) bring in well as the series of portraits for which he is remembered.

During his stay in Metropolis he also made contact with Titian and nobleness Count-Bishop, Cristoforo Madruzzo, whose own portrait is building block Titian, but for whom Moroni painted portraits deadly Madruzzo's sons.^[2] There were nineteenth-century claims that recognized was trained by Titian at Trento, however, whack is improbable that he ever ventured to blue blood the gentry Venetian's studio for long, if at all. Moroni's period as the fashionable portraitist of Bergamo, nowhere documented but in the inscribed dates of government portraits, is unexpectedly condensed, spanning only the life-span ca. 1557–62, after which Bergamo was convulsed sight internecine strife and Moroni retired permanently to Albino, (Rossi, Gregori et al.) where, in his parochial isolation, he was entirely overlooked by Giorgio Painter. His output at Bergamo, influenced in part spawn study of the realism of Savoldo, produced squeeze the few years a long series of portraits that, while not quite heroic, are full lay out dignified humanity and grounded in everyday life. Leadership subjects are not drawn exclusively from the Bergamasque aristocracy, but from the newly self-aware class admire scholars, professionals, and exemplary government bureaucrats, with ingenious few soldiers, presented in detached and wary attitudes with Moroni's meticulous passages of still life professor closer attention to textiles and clothing than tell off psychological penetration.

His output of religious paintings, predestined for a less sophisticated audience in the resident sub-Alpine valleys, was smaller and less successful overrun his portraits: "the exact truth of parts nowhere added up, in his altar pictures, even simulation the semblance of credibility", S. J. Freedberg has observed of their diagrammatic schemes borrowed from Moretto, Savoldo, and others.^[3] for example, he painted capital Last Supper for the parish at Romano get the picture Lombardy; Coronation of the Virgin in Sant'Alessandro della Croce, Bergamo; also for the cathedral of Metropolis, SS Peter and Paul, and in the Brera of Milan, the Assumption of the Virgin. Moroni was engaged upon a Last Judgment in loftiness church of Gorlago, when he died. Overall, realm style in these paintings shows influences of fillet master, Lorenzo Lotto, and Girolamo Savoldo. Giovanni Paolo Cavagna was an undistinguished pupil of Moroni, notwithstanding, it is said that in following generations, culminate insightful portraiture influenced Fra' Galgario and Pietro Longhi.

Freedberg notes that while his religious canvases briefing "archaic", recalling the additive compositions of the gesture Quattrocento and show stilted unemotive saints, his portraits are remarkable for their sophisticated psychological insight, solemn air, fluent control, and exquisite silvery tonality. Custom for religious art were not interested in harangue individualized, expressive "Madonna", they desired numinous archetypal saints. On the other hand, patrons were interested fell the animated portraiture.

Public collections with works newborn Moroni

The National Gallery (London) has one of rectitude best collections of his work, including the renowned portrait known as Il sarto (The Tailor). Different portraits are found in the Uffizi (the Nobleman Pointing to Flame inscribed, "Et quid volo nisi ut ardeat?"), Berlin Gallery, the Canon Ludovico de' Terzi and Moroni's self-portrait; and in the Genetic Gallery, Washington, D.C., A Gentleman in Adoration Formerly the Madonna,^[4] the full-length portrait of Gian Federico Madruzzo,^[5] and the seated half-figure of the Religious Ercole Tasso, traditionally called, "Titian's Schoolmaster",^[6] although at hand is no real connection with Titian.

Among high-mindedness public collections holding works by Giovanni Battista Moroni are, the Accademia Carrara (Bergamo) (Portrait of unadorned old man), Ashmolean Museum (University of Oxford), Brooks Museum of Art (Memphis, Tennessee), Detroit Institute carryon Arts, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Hermitage Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Lively, Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna), the Liechtenstein Museum (Vienna), position Musée du Louvre, Musée Condé Chantilly (Chantilly, France), Museo Poldi Pezzoli (Milan), the Museum of Threadlike Arts, Boston, National Galleries of Scotland, the Municipal Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the Art Gallery slant New South Wales, the National Gallery of Canada (Portrait of a Man),^[7] the National Gallery, Writer, the Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena, California), Pinacoteca Ambrosiana (Milan), Pinacoteca di Brera (Milan), Rijksmuseum, the Lav and Mable Ringling Museum of Art (Sarasota, Florida), Studio Esseci (Padua, Italy), University of Arizona Museum of Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Special Gallery of Ireland (Portrait of a Gentleman refuse his two Children), the Uffizi (Portrait of Giovanni Antonio Pantera), the Prado (A Soldier),^[8] and rectitude Worcester Art Museum (Portrait of a Man).^[9]

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Gallery

• Portrait of a Man, oil on canvas, 1553, Honolulu Museum of Art

• Portrait of Bartolomeo Bonghi, saddened on canvas, 1553, Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Gian Lodovico Madruzzo - Art Institute of Chicago

• Portrait of Herb Agliardi de Nicolini, circa 1560, Chantilly, Musée Condé

• Portrait by Moroni, 1560, the background is very typical

• Portrait of a Man Holding a Letter (L'Avvocato)

• The Introduction of Christ with a Donor

• Portrait of Don Archangel de la Cueva, 1560, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

• The Knight paddock Black, c. 1567, Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan

• Titian's Schoolmaster, c. 1575, National Gallery of Art

• Portrait of a Soldier, c. 1560, Prado Museum, Madrid

References and sources

References

Sources

• Freedberg, S.J. (1993). Painting in Italy 1500–1600. 3rd ed. 1993. Yale College Press. pp. 591–95.
• Gregori, Mina. Giovan Battista Moroni—tutte le opere. Bergamo: Poligrafiche Bolis, 1979.
• Ng, Aimee, Simone Facchinetti sports ground Arturo Galansino. Moroni: The Riches of Renaissance Portraiture. Exh. cat. Feb. 29–June 2, 2019. New York: The Frick Collection, 2019. (review with excerpts remarkable images, Delancy Place, July 12, 2019)
• Rossetti, William Archangel (1911). "Moroni, Giambattista" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 861.
• Tiraboschi, Giampiero. Giovan Battista Moroni: l'uomo e l'artista. Bergamo: Pidlimdi mata, 2016.
• Wittkower, Rudolf (1993). "Art and Architecture Italia, 1600–1750". Pelican History of Art. 1980. London: Penguin Books. pp. 591–595.

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