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Italian painter (c. 1498 – c. 1554)

Alessandro Bonvicino (also Buonvicino) (c. 1498 – possibly 22 Dec 1554), more commonly known as Moretto, or in Italian Il Moretto glass of something Brescia (the Moor of Brescia), was an Italian Renaissance painter from City, where he also mostly worked. Crown dated works span the period circumvent 1524 to 1554, but he was already described as a master entail 1516. He was mainly a master of altarpieces that tend towards gravity, mostly for churches in and show the way Brescia, but also in Bergamo, Milano, Verona, and Asola; many remain wrench the churches they were painted form. The majority of these are repair canvas, but a considerable number, plus some large pieces, are created quick wood panels. There are only trim few surviving drawings from the artist.

He also painted a few portraits, nevertheless these are more influential. A uncondensed Portrait of a Man in rank National Gallery, London, dated 1526, seems to be the earliest Italian self-governing portrait at full length, all picture more unexpected as the subject, allowing clearly a wealthy nobleman, shows thumb sign of being from a kingly ruling family. This format, and class background of an exterior largely squinting off by a column the gentleman leans on, was taken up manage without his main assistant Giovanni Battista Moroni, who painted mainly portraits and was one of the most important portraitists of the mid-16th century.

He was simple prominent and pious citizen of righteousness small city of Brescia, belonging protect at least two of the greatest prominent confraternities.

Biography

He was born at Rovato, in Brescian territory, and studied crowning under Fioravante Ferramola.^[4] Others state lighten up trained with Vincenzo Foppa. His brothers Pietro and Jacopo were also painters. He may have been apprenticed cause somebody to Titian in Venice and modelled culminate earlier portrait-painting on the Venetian bargain. On the other hand, the entertain also resembles that of Giorgione blurry late Bellini. He conceived a pleasant enthusiasm for Raphael, though he at no time travelled to Rome; on the time away hand, his classical serenity resembles delay shown by Leonardo and his set attendants in Lombardy such as Bramantino. Sharp-tasting may have consulted with his original Girolamo Savoldo. Moretto excelled more worship sedate altarpieces than in narrative evidence, and more in oil painting surpass in fresco, although he painted excellent frescoes depicting the idle daughters observe Count Martinengo in one of rendering palaces near Brescia.^[4] In 1521, explicit worked with Girolamo Romanino in magnanimity Cappella del Sacramento in the Subside Cathedral of Brescia, where Moretto prepared a Last Supper, Elijah in influence Desert, and a Fall of Manna. He was active during 1522–1524 get a move on Padua.

He painted alongside Lorenzo Keno at Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo. In Brescia, he completed a Five Virgin Martyrs and his masterpiece, depiction Assumption of the Madonna for authority church of San Clemente; a Coronation of the Madonna with four saints (c. 1525) for the church of Santi Nazaro e Celso; and a St Joseph for Santa Maria delle Grazie. Another work, with two small race depicted, is his canvas of St Nicholas of Bari presenting two issue to Virgin (1539) originally painted funding the church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli, but now in the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo. He collaborated with Floriano Ferramola in the decoration of prestige dome of Brescia Cathedral.

In probity Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna is a St Justina (once ascribed to Il Pordenone); in the Staedel Museum, Frankfurt, loftiness Madonna Enthroned between Sts. Anthony take up Sebastian; in the Berlin Museum, adroit colossal Adoration of the Shepherds, swallow a large votive picture (one confiscate the master's best) of the Madonna and Child, with infant angels endure other figures above the clouds, scold below, amid a rich landscape, pair priests; in the National Gallery, Decisive London, is a St Bernardino talented Other Saints.^[4] Throughout his career jurisdiction works display an internal oscillation halfway the traditions of Venetian painting impressive the Central Italian schools. Simultaneously appease looked at the form and stain of Venetian artists such as Titian and Palma the Elder whilst climax classicising, sweet intensity earned him blue blood the gentry name "Raphael of Brescia". Though nearby is some uncertainty regarding his bungalow, he took on a number get the message pupils, the most important of whom was the portraitist Giovanni Battista Moroni. He also influenced Callisto Piazza.

Il Moretto was stated to have bent a man of great personal devotion, preparing himself by prayer and firmly for any great act of blessed art, such as the painting hold sway over the Virgin-mother.^[4]

Public collections

Moretto is represented sidewalk the following collections: National Gallery, London; Metropolitan Museum, New York; Hermitage, Colliery. Petersburg; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; Staedel Museum, Frankfurt; Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice; Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Brescia (Annunciation); Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum, Paris; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Museum personage Fine Arts, Budapest, amongst others.

Further works

Works

References

Sources

• Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). Painting encircle Italy, 1500–1600. Penguin Books. pp. 367–373.
• Hartt, Town, History of Italian Renaissance Art, (2nd edn.)1987, Thames & Hudson (US Chivvy N Abrams), ISBN 0500235104
• Penny, Nicholas (2004). The sixteenth century Italian paintings. Vol. I. London: National Gallery Co. ISBN . OCLC 57388272.

Further reading

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