Portrait of a Man (Moretto)

Portrait of a Man is a 1526 oil on canvas painting by Moretto da Brescia, now in the National Gallery, London, which acquired it in 1876 from Fenaroli Avogadro, an inhabitant of Brescia.[1] It is held to be the first surviving standing life-size portrait in art history, predating those of Titian.[2]

References
  1. "Catalogue entry".
  2. Pier Virgilio Begni Redona, p. 185.

Bibliography
  • (in Italian) Camillo Boselli, 'Il Moretto, 1498-1554', in Commentari dell'Ateneo di Brescia per l'anno 1954 – Supplemento, Brescia, 1954.
  • (in Italian) Giovanni Battista Carboni, Le Pitture e Scolture di Brescia che sono esposte al pubblico con un'appendice di alcune private Gallerie, Brescia, 1760.
  • (in Italian) Pietro Da Ponte, L'opera del Moretto, Brescia, 1898.
  • György Gombosi, Moretto da Brescia, Basel, 1943.
  • Cecil Gould, National Gallery catalogues. The sixteenth-century Italian schools (excluding the Venetian), London, 1962.
  • Cecil Gould, The sixteenth-century Italian schools, London, 1975.
  • (in Italian) Pier Virgilio Begni Redona, Alessandro Bonvicino – Il Moretto da Brescia, Brescia, Editrice La Scuola, 1988.
  • (in Italian) Giorgio Vasari, Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori e architettori scritte da M. Giorgio Vasari pittore aretino – Con nuove annotazioni e commenti di Gaetano Milanesi, Firenze, 1881.
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