Saturday, June 18, 2022

Alessandro Bonvicino, called Moretto da Brescia (1498-1554)

Moretto da Brescia
Virgin and Child
before 1554
oil on canvas
Palazzo Bianco, Genoa

Moretto da Brescia
Virgin and Child in Glory with Saints
ca. 1540-54
oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Moretto da Brescia
St Roch tended by an Angel
ca. 1545
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Moretto da Brescia
Holy Family in a Landscape
before 1554
oil on panel
private collection

Moretto da Brescia
Easter Meal
ca. 1524
oil on canvas
Duomo Vecchio, Brescia

Moretto da Brescia
Christ blessing St John the Baptist
ca. 1540
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

Moretto da Brescia
Christ in the Wilderness
ca. 1515-20
oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Moretto da Brescia
Christ in Glory with St Andrew and St Roch
1545
oil on canvas
Chiesa di San Bartolomeo, Castenedolo

Moretto da Brescia
Portrait of a Gentleman
1526
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

Moretto da Brescia
Portrait of a Gentleman with a Letter
ca. 1535
oil on canvas
Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Brescia

Moretto da Brescia
Portrait of a Gentleman with Lynx-Fur Collar,
probably Count Fortunato Martinengo Cesaresco

ca. 1540-45
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

Moretto da Brescia
Portrait of a Gentleman Praying
ca. 1545
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

Moretto da Brescia
Portrait of a Lady in White
ca. 1540
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Moretto da Brescia
St Joseph
before 1554
oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Moretto da Brescia
St Faustino on Horseback
before 1554
oil on canvas
Basilica di Santa Maria in Valvendra, Lovere

"And not inferior to these – nay, even superior – was Alessandro Moretto, who was very delicate in his colouring, and much the friend of diligence, as the works made by him demonstrate."

– from Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari (1568), translated by Gaston du C. de Vere (1912)