Giovanni battista moroni biography book

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    • Giovanni Battista Moroni

    Italian painter

    Giovanni Battista Moroni

    Giovanni Battista Moroni, in 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

    NationalityItalian
    Known forPainting
    MovementMannerism

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

    Biography

    Moroni was the son of architect Andrea Moroni. He trained under Alessandro Bonvicino in Brescia, where he was the main studio assistant during the 1540s, and worked in Trento, Bergamo and his home town of Albino, near Bergamo, where he was born and died. His two short periods in Trento coincided with