Giovanni Battista Moroni was an Italian painter of the late Renaissance. His birthplace and date of birth are not known, he was probably born between 1510 and 1524. His father Andrea Moroni was an architect and the family probably lived near the city of Bergamo. The young Moroni learned his artistic craft from the well-known church painter and portrait painter Alessandro Bonvicino, called Il Moretto da Brescia. In the beginning Giovanni Battista Moroni also painted mainly churches but also rooms in private houses. During an artistic stay in Trieste, Moroni met the famous painter Titian. That he also took lessons from him is an unproven rumor. The only thing that is certain is that Titian commissioned him to paint a portrait of the sons of Cristoforo Madruzzo, a very influential Italian cardinal, because he held his work in such high esteem.
After Giovanni Battista Moroni left the studio of Il Moretto and retired from Brecia to the Italian province of Albino near Bergamo, he began to paint more and more portraits, in addition to religious paintings. In the following years he painted many portraits, often of people who were not celebrities of their time. His pictures are captivating because of the naturalness and liveliness of his figures, which in a way let the viewer look into their souls. Just think of Moroni's most famous paintings "Il Sarto (The Tailor)", "Portrait of the Sculptor Alessandro Vittoria", "The Schoolmaster of Titian" or "la Dama in rosso (The Lady in Pink)", which probably shows the Contessa Lucia Albani Avogadro. Very impressive also "The Man with Letter" or "The Soldier". But of course many greats of his time belonged to his customers and had themselves or their family portrayed by him.
Almost nothing is known about the private life of Giovanni Battista Moroni. Whether he was married or had children is not known. Also his exact date of death or his place of death are not handed down. The artist probably died in 1579 or 1580. Although the painter was already known at least in Italy during his lifetime, it was not until the 19th century that he became truly famous and internationally renowned. The world's largest collection of his works hangs in the National Gallery of Arts in London, another collection is in the Uffizi Gallery.
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.jpg "Portrait of Gian Gerolamo Grumelli, Italian Statesman and Noble, 1560 by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Young Woman, 1560-78 by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "The Tailor by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of a man with a book by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "The Sculptor Alessandro Vittoria by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Gentleman by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Man holding a Letter, c. 1570 by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Little Girl from the House Redetti by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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_oil_-_(MeisterDrucke-1462570).jpg "Portrait of Gian Gerolamo Albani by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Gentleman in a Green Doublet and Chainmail Shirt, c.1565 by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of an Old Man with a Book, Possibly Giovan Battista Seradobati, an Italian Notary by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Left-Handed Gentleman with Two Quartos and a Letter (")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Lady, c.1555-60 by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-875856).jpg "Portrait of a Lady, Perhaps Contessa Lucia Albani Avogadro (")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Lady La Dama in Rosso by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-38644).jpg "Portrait of a Man, presumed to be Clement Marot by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "A Knight with his Jousting Helmet Il Cavaliere dal Piede Ferito, Conte Faustino Avogadro, ca 1554 by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1033545).jpg "Portrait of a Young Man by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Bust Portrait of a Young Man with an Inscription by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-875858).jpg "Portrait of a Man Holding a Letter (")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Scholar by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1462568).jpg "Adoration of the Magi by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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_Shrine_of_Our_-_(MeisterDrucke-1462229).jpg "Christ carrying cross by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Young Girl by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1092603).jpg "Portrait of Gentleman by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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_oil_on_c_-_(MeisterDrucke-1462584).jpg "Marriage of St Catherine by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1632075).jpg "A Gentleman in Adoration before the Madonna by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "A Man, between 1520 and 1578 by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of Don Gabriel de la Cueva y Giron, Duke of Albuquerque by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Madonna and Child with St. Catherine, St. Francis and the Donor by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1656019).jpg "The Sculptor Alessandro Vittoria by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-958784).jpg "Portrait of an old man by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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_Peinture_de_Giovan_Battista_Moroni_-_(MeisterDrucke-1323536).jpg "Portrait of the Roman Vestal Virgin Tuccia by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Man holding a Letter, c.1570-75 by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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_French_writer_and_doctor_Paint_-_(MeisterDrucke-1002302).jpg "Presumed portrait of Francois Rabelais, French writer and doctor by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of Isotta Brembati, ca 1555 by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "The Assumption of the Virgin by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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_(The_Sculptor_Alessandro_V_-_(MeisterDrucke-1031301).jpg "Portrait of the Sculptor Alessandro Vittoria (1525-1608) by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of Gian Girolamo Albani 1504-1591 by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of Bernardo Spini by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Man by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Titian")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1498882).jpg "Portrait of Vincenzo Guarignoni by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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_Generale_Collaterale_of_-_(MeisterDrucke-902696).jpg "Portrait of a Man, Possibly Gian Gerolamo Albani, in the Uniform of an Officer of the Auxiliary Territorial Troops by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "A Gentleman in Adoration Before the Madonna by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Little Girl by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Young Woman. 1560-78 by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Lady La Dama in Rosso by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Man by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Nobleman by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "A Knight with his Jousting Helmet by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "The Vestal Virgin Tuccia by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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_1560_-_(MeisterDrucke-310416).jpg "Portrait of Don Gabriel de la Cueva, The Duke of Albuquerque (1525-71) by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Crucifixion with Saints Bernardino and Anthony of Padua by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "The Knight in Black by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Girl of Family Redetti by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of Antonio Navagero by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1102490).jpg "Portrait of the Poet Giovanni Antonio Pantera by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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_oil_on_c_-_(MeisterDrucke-1462571).jpg "Deposition of Christ in tomb by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Christ Carrying the Cross by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Magistrate (Detail) by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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_Oil_on_canvas_si_-_(MeisterDrucke-960079).jpg "Gian Gerolamo Grumelli by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Seated Old Man by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of Vincenzo Guarignoni by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Man by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Recruitment of Venetian Troops on the Molo by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Assumption of the Virgin by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1173291).jpg "Portrait of a gentleman by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of Bartolomeo Colleoni by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Young Man by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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_oil_o_-_(MeisterDrucke-1462362).jpg "St Jerome Meditating or Reading by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of Vincenzo Guarignoni by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Locollo Souardi, c.1560-78 by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1462968).jpg "Portrait of Gerolamo Agosti, by Giovanni Battista Moroni by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of Gian Gerolamo Grumelli, Knight in pink by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1462585).jpg "Portrait of elderly woman in black by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Bartolomeo Bonghi by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Batavia by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Canon Ludovico di Terzi by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of an Old Man by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "The Tailor by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Nobleman in Armour by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Lady (detail) by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "The Transfiguration by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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_oil_on_canvas_4_-_(MeisterDrucke-1462221).jpg "Portrait of Young Man by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1462978).jpg "Saint Lucia by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Gentleman with his Helmet on a Column Shaft by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Man by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Man with Raised Eyebrows by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Titian")
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.jpg "The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Lucrezia Agliardi Vertova 1490-1558, 1557 by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Little Girl from the House Redetti by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of Isotta Brembati Grumelli by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Gentleman by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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.jpg "Gian Gerolamo Grumelli. Around 1560 by Giovanni Battista Moroni")
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