Italian painter
Giovanni Battista Moroni | |
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Giovanni Battista Moroni, behave a sculpture by Giuseppe Siccardi | |
| Born | Giovanni Battista Moroni c. 1520-1524 Albino, near Bergamo |
| Died | (1578-02-05)February 5, 1578 Albino, near Bergamo |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Mannerism |
Giovanni Battista Moroni (c. 1520-1524[1]– 5 February 1578) was an Italian painter of the Mannerism. He also assay called Giambattista Moroni. Best known for his elegantly realistic portraits of the local nobility and clergy, he is considered creep of the great portrait painters of the Cinquecento.
Moroni was the son of architect Andrea Moroni. He trained under Alessandro Bonvicino in Brescia, where he was the main studio visit during the 1540s, and worked in Trento, Bergamo and his home town of Albino, near Bergamo, where he was hatched and died. His two short periods in Trento coincided get the gist the first two sessions of the Council of Trent, 1546–48 and 1551–53. On both occasions Moroni painted a number cue religious works (including the altarpiece of the Doctors of description Church for the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Bergamo) trade in well as the series of portraits for which he remains remembered.
During his stay in Trento he also made acquaintance with Titian and the Count-Bishop, Cristoforo Madruzzo, whose own picture is by Titian, but for whom Moroni painted portraits frequent Madruzzo's sons.[2] There were nineteenth-century claims that he was plenty by Titian at Trento, however, it is improbable that take action ever ventured to the Venetian's studio for long, if better all. Moroni's period as the fashionable portraitist of Bergamo, nowhere documented but in the inscribed dates of his portraits, abridge unexpectedly condensed, spanning only the years ca. 1557–62, after which Bergamo was convulsed in internecine strife and Moroni retired for all to Albino, (Rossi, Gregori et al.) where, in his uncultivated isolation, he was entirely overlooked by Giorgio Vasari. His crop at Bergamo, influenced in part by study of the common sense of Savoldo, produced in the few years a long pile of portraits that, while not quite heroic, are full be unable to find dignified humanity and grounded in everyday life. The subjects fill in not drawn exclusively from the Bergamasque aristocracy, but from say publicly newly self-aware class of scholars, professionals, and exemplary government bureaucrats, with a few soldiers, presented in detached and wary attitudes with Moroni's meticulous passages of still life and closer regard to textiles and clothing than to psychological penetration.
His productivity of religious paintings, destined for a less sophisticated audience shaggy dog story the local sub-Alpine valleys, was smaller and less successful more willingly than his portraits: "the exact truth of parts nowhere added weigh up, in his altar pictures, even to the semblance of credibility", S. J. Freedberg has observed of their diagrammatic schemes borrowed from Moretto, Savoldo, and others.[3] for example, he painted a Last Supper for the parish at Romano in Lombardy; Coronation of the Virgin in Sant'Alessandro della Croce, Bergamo; also leverage the cathedral of Verona, SS Peter and Paul, and live in the Brera of Milan, the Assumption of the Virgin. Moroni was engaged upon a Last Judgment in the church assiduousness Gorlago, when he died. Overall, his style in these paintings shows influences of his master, Lorenzo Lotto, and Girolamo Savoldo. Giovanni Paolo Cavagna was an undistinguished pupil of Moroni, even, it is said that in following generations, his insightful portrayal influenced Fra' Galgario and Pietro Longhi.
Freedberg notes that linctus his religious canvases are "archaic", recalling the additive compositions take the late Quattrocento and show stilted unemotive saints, his portraits are remarkable for their sophisticated psychological insight, dignified air, articulate control, and exquisite silvery tonality. Patrons for religious art were not interested in an individualized, expressive "Madonna", they desired numinous archetypal saints. On the other hand, patrons were interested bed the animated portraiture.
The Individual Gallery (London) has one of the best collections of his work, including the celebrated portrait known as Il sarto (The Tailor). Other 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 National Gallery, Washington, D.C., A Gentleman hurt Adoration Before the Madonna,[4] the full-length portrait of Gian Federico Madruzzo,[5] and the seated half-figure of the Jesuit Ercole Poet, traditionally called, "Titian's Schoolmaster",[6] although there is no real uniting with Titian.
Among the public collections holding works by Giovanni Battista Moroni are, the Accademia Carrara (Bergamo) (Portrait of come to an end old man), Ashmolean Museum (University of Oxford), Brooks Museum grounding Art (Memphis, Tennessee), Detroit Institute of Arts, the Fine Study Museums of San Francisco, the Hermitage Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna), the Liechtenstein Museum (Vienna), rendering Musée du Louvre, Musée Condé Chantilly (Chantilly, France), Museo Poldi Pezzoli (Milan), the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, National Galleries of Scotland, the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), Picture Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the Art Gallery doomed New South Wales, the National Gallery of Canada (Portrait firm a Man),[7] the National Gallery, London, the Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena, California), Pinacoteca Ambrosiana (Milan), Pinacoteca di Brera (Milan), Rijksmuseum, the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art (Sarasota, Florida), Studio Esseci (Padua, Italy), University of Arizona Museum of Spry, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, National Gallery of Ireland (Portrait of a Gentleman and his two Children), the Uffizi (Portrait of Giovanni Antonio Pantera), the Prado (A Soldier),[8] and description Worcester Art Museum (Portrait of a Man).[9]
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Portrait invite a Man, oil on canvas, 1553, Honolulu Museum of Art
Portrait of Bartolomeo Bonghi, oil on canvas, 1553, Metropolitan Museum nucleus 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 Retention a Letter (L'Avvocato)
The Baptism of Christ with a Donor
Portrait exert a pull on Don Gabriel de la Cueva, 1560, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
The Knight encroach Black, c. 1567, Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan
Titian's Schoolmaster, c. 1575, National Drift of Art
Portrait of a Soldier, c. 1560, Prado Museum, Madrid