Lombard painter Giovanni Battista Moroni was famous in his time but has fallen into oblivion in the intervening centuries. An exhibition in milan, the largest ever devoted to the artist in Italy, seeks to correct that.
Giovanni Battista Moroni (1521-1580), Portrait of Gabriel III of La Cueva y Girón, 1560, oil on canvas, 114.8 x 90.8 cm/45.19 x 35.74 in, Berlin, Gemäldegalerie.
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie/Christoph Schmidt
Giovanni Battista Moroni was “uniquely a portraitist , the only and best one that Italy has ever produced,” said American art critic and connoisseur Bernard Berenson in 1907 about one of the greatest masters of a genre that was highly popular in the late 16 th century. Yet the Renaissance painter was completely forgotten before being rediscovered in the 19 th century by Gustave Courbet and Édouard Manet , who admired him, and by art historians in the following century. The curators of the two exhibitions devoted to the Lombard artist in…
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