Giovanni Battista Moroni

(1525–1578) Italian painter (1525-1578)

Giovanni Battista Moroni (1525–1578) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Giovanni Battista Moroni belongs to the chapter ‘Mannerism’ in this site’s history of art.

Giovanni Battista Moroni was born in Albino and died in Bergamo. The students included Francesco Terzi.

The best-known works include ‘Portrait of Pietro Secco Suardo’, ‘The Tailor’, ‘Gabriel de la Cueva, duke of Alburquerque’, and ‘Portrait of a young Woman’. The works belong mainly to the genre portrait. The catalogue has 85 works by Giovanni Battista Moroni with free images. The dated works span the years 1520–1900. Works by Giovanni Battista Moroni are held by several collections, among them National Gallery, Accademia Carrara, Gemäldegalerie, and Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Crispin van den Broeck, Paolo Farinati, Anthonis van den Wyngaerde, Ascanio Condivi, and Antonio Campi.

• Mannerism
• The Tailor
• Portrait of the sculptor Alessandro Vittoria