Monday, June 20, 2022

Francesco Morone (1471-1529) - Verona

Francesco Morone
Baptism of Christ (detail)
1517
detached fresco
Museo degli affreschi Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle, Verona

Francesco Morone
Baptism of Christ (detail)
1517
detached fresco
Museo degli affreschi Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle, Verona

Francesco Morone
Baptism of Christ
1517
detached fresco
Museo degli affreschi Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle, Verona

Francesco Morone
The Holy Trinity
with the Virgin
and St John the Baptist

before 1529
oil on panel
Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona

Francesco Morone
The Holy Trinity (detail)
before 1529
oil on panel
Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona

Francesco Morone
St Bernardino with Donor
before 1529
oil on panel
Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona

Francesco Morone
St Clare with Donors
before 1529
oil on panel
Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona

Francesco Morone
St Anthony Abbot and St Roch
before 1529
oil on panel
Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona

Francesco Morone
St Sebastian and St Paul
before 1529
oil on panel
Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona

Francesco Morone
Virgin and Child
before 1529
oil on panel
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Francesco Morone
St Bartholomew
before 1529
oil on panel
(altarpiece fragment)
Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona

Francesco Morone
St Francis
before 1529
oil on panel
(altarpiece fragment)
Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona

Francesco Morone
St Francis receiving the Stigmata
before 1529
oil on panel
Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona

Francesco Morone
Madonna Moscardo
before 1529
oil on panel
Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona

Francesco Morone
Virgin and Child Enthroned
with Saints Onuphrius, Sebastian, Justine, and Ursula

ca. 1500
oil on canvas
(small portable altarpiece)
Philadelphia Museum of Art

"Domenico died very old, and was buried in S. Bernardino, . . . leaving his son, Francesco Morone, heir to his property and his talents.  This Francesco, who learned the first principles of art from his father, afterwards exerted himself in such a manner that in a short time he became a much better master than his father had been, as the works that he executed in emulation of those of his father clearly demonstrate.  . . .  Let it suffice to say that he gave grace, unity, and good design to his pictures, with a colouring as vivid and pleasing as that of any other painter.  Francesco lived fifty-five years, and died on May 16, 1529.  He chose to be carried to his tomb in the habit of a Friar of S. Francis, and he was buried in S. Domenico, beside his father.  He was so good a man, so religious, and so exemplary, that there was never heard to issue from his mouth any word that was otherwise than seemly."

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