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Portrait of Vincenzo Guarignoni
Giovanni Battista Moronic. 1572
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
The Latin inscription gives the sitter's name and age (45), as well as the painting's date. Guarignoni came from a prominent family in the northern Italian city of Bergamo. His direct and thoughtful gaze enhances the painting’s lifelike quality, while the solemn detachment conveys dignity and excellence rather than an exact personality, a common approach in Renaissance portraiture.
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- Title: Portrait of Vincenzo Guarignoni
- Creator: Giovanni Battista Moroni (Italian, 1525-1578)
- Date Created: c. 1572
- Physical Dimensions: Framed: 91 x 80 x 8 cm (35 13/16 x 31 1/2 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 63 x 50.8 cm (24 13/16 x 20 in.)
- Provenance: Count Leon Miniszech (sale: Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, April 9-11, 1902, no. 23);, [Agnew, London];, C. Fairfax Murray, London;, [Julius Bohler, Munich, 1908];, Mr. and Mrs. Howard P. Eells, Cleveland, 1913;, Maude Stager Eells, Cleveland (unsold, Parke Bernet, New York, November 29, 1961, no. 10, illus.), by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1962.
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.1
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Inscriptions: Inscribed at bottom: "VINCENT. GVARINON. AN. AET. XXXXV / MDLXXII"
- Department: European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: Italy, Bergamo, 16th century
- Credit Line: Gift of Adele C. and Howard P. Eells, Jr., in memory of Howard Parmelee Eells
- Collection: P - Italian 16th & 17th Century
- Accession Number: 1962.1
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