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Giovanni Battista Moroni
Italian painter
Giovanni Battista Moroni | |
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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 |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Mannerism |
Giovanni Battista Moroni (c. 1520-1524[1]– 5 February 1578) was an Italian painter of the Mannerism.
Giovanni battista moroni biography of christopher
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 the f