Giovanni Battista Moroni
Giovanni Battista Moroni | |
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Born | Giovanni Battista Moroni c. 1520-1524 |
Died | |
Nationality | Italian |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Mannerism |
Giovanni Battista Moroni (c. 1520-1524
Biography
Moroni was the son of architect Andrea Moroni. He trained under
During his stay in Trento he also made contact with
His output of religious paintings, destined for a less sophisticated audience in the local sub-Alpine valleys, was smaller and less successful than his portraits: "the exact truth of parts nowhere added up, in his altar pictures, even to the semblance of credibility",
Freedberg notes that while his religious canvases are "archaic", recalling the additive compositions of the late Quattrocento and show stilted unemotive saints, his portraits are remarkable for their sophisticated psychological insight, dignified air, fluent 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 in the animated portraiture.
Public collections with works by Moroni
The
Among the public collections holding works by Giovanni Battista Moroni are, the
In 2016, "Portrait of a Man", attributed to the workshop of Giovanni Battista Moroni, was restituted to the heirs of Dr. August Liebmann Mayer. The painting had been looted by the Nazis, returned to France and in storage at the Louvre Museum in Paris since 1951.
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Gallery
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Portrait of a Man, oil on canvas, 1553, Honolulu Museum of Art
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Portrait of Bartolomeo Bonghi, oil on canvas, 1553, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Gian Lodovico Madruzzo - Art Institute of Chicago
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Portrait of Angelica Agliardi de Nicolini, circa 1560, Chantilly, Musée Condé
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Portrait by Moroni, 1560, the background is very typical
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Portrait of a Man Holding a Letter (L'Avvocato)
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The Baptism of Christ with a Donor
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Portrait ofGemäldegalerie, Berlin
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Titian's Schoolmaster, c. 1575, National Gallery of Art
References and sources
References
- ^ Rossetti (1911) placed his birth date around 1510; Freedberg states he was born c. 1523, while the Bergamo exhibition gives the range 1520-1524.
- ^ They are at the Art Institute of Chicago and the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
- ^ Freedberg 1993:593.
- ^ "A Gentleman in Adoration before the Madonna". National Gallery of Art - Collections. 3 September 1560. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
- ^ "Gian Federico Madruzzo". National Gallery of Art - Collections. 3 September 1560. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
- ^ "Titian's Schoolmaster". National Gallery of Art. 3 September 1575. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
- ^ https://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artwork.php?mkey=12770 [bare URL]
- ^ "A Soldier - The Collection - Museo Nacional del Prado". www.museodelprado.es. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
- ^ The old monographs on Moroni by D. Cugini Moroni Pittore (Bergamo) 1939 and G. Lendorff Giovanni Battista Moroni Il Ritrattista Bergamasco (Bergamo) 1939 have been superseded; archival notices concerning the painter and the modern catalogue raisonné is in Mina Gregori, Giovanni Battista Moroni: tutte le opere (Bergamo) 1979; two exhibitions have renewed interest in Moroni: Francesco Rossi, Mina Gregori et al., Giovan Battista Moroni (Bergamo exhibition catalogue), and Peter Humfrey, Giovanni Battista Moroni: Renaissance Portraitist (Fort Worth: Kimball Art Museum) 2000, the catalogue record of an exhibition of ten portraits at the Kimball (February–May 2000), with essays that set Moroni in the cultural history of his time.
- ^ Quito, Anne (5 May 2015). "A 17th-century painting looted by the Nazis was returned to its owner today". Quartz. Retrieved 2022-02-09.
Sources
- Freedberg, S.J. (1993). Painting in Italy 1500–1600. 3rd ed. 1993. Yale University Press. pp. 591–95.
- Gregori, Mina. Giovan Battista Moroni—tutte le opere. Bergamo: Poligrafiche Bolis, 1979.
- Ng, Aimee, Simone Facchinetti and Arturo Galansino. Moroni: The Riches of Renaissance Portraiture. Exh. cat. Feb. 29–June 2, 2019. New York: The Frick Collection, 2019. (review with excerpts and images, Delancy Place, July 12, 2019)
- Rossetti, William Michael (1911). . 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: Tera mata, 2016.
- Wittkower, Rudolf (1993). "Art and Architecture Italy, 1600–1750". Pelican History of Art. 1980. London: Penguin Books. pp. 591–595.
External links
- Guardian article on Moroni
- Paintings by Moroni Archived 2021-07-09 at the Wayback Machine
- Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. .
- Painters of reality: the legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Moroni (see index)
- Exhibition at the Frick Collection, New York, in 2019.