Portrait of Vincenzo Guarignoni
Giovanni Battista Moroni (Italian, 1525–1578)
c. 1572
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- 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.)
- Culture
- Italy, Bergamo
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Gift of Adele C. and Howard P. Eells Jr., in memory of Howard Parmelee Eells
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
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.
