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MORONI, GIAMBATTISTA (c. 1510-1578)

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MORONI, GIAMBATTISTA (c. 1510-1578) , See also:Italian portrait-painter of the Venetian school, was See also:born at See also:Albino near See also:Bergamo about 1513 ()I perhaps a few years later), and became a See also:pupil of Bonvicino named I1 See also:Moretto. Beyond the See also:record of his See also:works very few particulars regarding him have reached us. See also:Titian, under whom also Moroni, while still very See also:young, is said to have studied (but this appears hardly probable), had at any See also:rate a high See also:opinion of his See also:powers; he said that Moroni made his portraits " living " or " actual " (veri). In truthful and animated See also:portraiture Moroni ranks near Titian himself. His portraits do not indeed attain to a majestic monumental See also:character; but they are full of straightforward See also:life and individuality, with genuine unforced choice of attitude, and excellent texture and arrangement of draperies. There is a certain tendency to a See also:violet-tint in the flesh, and the See also:drawing and See also:action of the hands are not first-rate. The earliest inscribed date discovered for any of his works is 1553. As leading samples may be mentioned—in the Uffizi See also:Gallery, See also:Florence the " Nobleman pointing to a See also:Flame," inscribed " Et quid See also:volo nisi ut ardeat ? " ; in the See also:National Gallery, See also:London, the portraits of a Tailor, a member of the Fenaroli See also:family, See also:Canon Ludovico de' See also:Terzi, and others; in the See also:Berlin Gallery, his own portrait; and in See also:Stafford See also:House, the seated See also:half-figure of the Jesuit Ercole See also:Tasso, currently termed " Titian's Schoolmaster "—not as indicating any real connexion between the sitter and Titian, but only the consummate excellence of the See also:work. Besides his portraits, Moroni painted, from youth to his latest days, the See also:ordinary See also:round of sacred compositions; but in these he falls below his See also:master II Moretto. One of the best is the " See also:Coronation of the Virgin," in S.

Alessandro della Croce, Bergamo; also in the See also:

cathedral of See also:Verona, " SS See also:Peter and See also:Paul," and in the Brera of See also:Milan, the " See also:Assumption of the Virgin." Moroni was engaged upon a " Last See also:Judgment," in the See also:church of Corlago, when he died on the 5th of See also:February 1578. (W. M.

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