{"id":8625,"date":"2014-11-03T13:57:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T12:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/?p=8625"},"modified":"2015-07-18T09:52:40","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T07:52:40","slug":"at-the-royal-academy-for-the-first-comprehensive-g-b-moronis-solo-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/11\/03\/at-the-royal-academy-for-the-first-comprehensive-g-b-moronis-solo-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"At the Royal Academy for the first comprehensive G.B. Moroni&#8217;s solo in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-8625 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/11\/03\/at-the-royal-academy-for-the-first-comprehensive-g-b-moronis-solo-in-the-uk\/0555119d-c7fe-4032-9451-5b7263564b2f-1436x2040\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"106\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0555119d-c7fe-4032-9451-5b7263564b2f-1436x2040-338x480.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8626\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8626'>\n\t\t\t\tGiovanni Battista Moroni,  Isotta Brembati, c. 1555. Photograph: Lucretia Moroni Collection, Bergamo.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/11\/03\/at-the-royal-academy-for-the-first-comprehensive-g-b-moronis-solo-in-the-uk\/b24b88cf-02b0-4715-a22d-74d51f11733e-1529x2040\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/b24b88cf-02b0-4715-a22d-74d51f11733e-1529x2040-360x480.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8627\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8627'>\n\t\t\t\tGiovanni Battista Moroni, The Tailor, 1565-70. Photo \u00a9 The National Gallery, London\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/11\/03\/at-the-royal-academy-for-the-first-comprehensive-g-b-moronis-solo-in-the-uk\/a3044fb0-f7a9-410b-b451-4e4f206debc7-1155x2040\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"85\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/a3044fb0-f7a9-410b-b451-4e4f206debc7-1155x2040-271x480.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8628\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8628'>\n\t\t\t\tGiovanni Battista Moroni, Gian Gerolamo Grumelli, c.1560. Fondazione Museo di Palazzo Moroni, Bergamo &#8211; Lucretia Moroni Collection. \n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/11\/03\/at-the-royal-academy-for-the-first-comprehensive-g-b-moronis-solo-in-the-uk\/5240-giovan-battista-moroni\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"81\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/5240-Giovan-Battista-Moroni-258x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8629\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8629'>\n\t\t\t\tGiovanni Battista Moroni, The black knight, 1550-1575. Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/11\/03\/at-the-royal-academy-for-the-first-comprehensive-g-b-moronis-solo-in-the-uk\/giovanni_battista_moroni_004\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"119\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Giovanni_Battista_Moroni_004-382x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8630\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8630'>\n\t\t\t\tGiovanni Battista Moroni, Ritratto di Giovanni Pietro Maffeis, !560-1565. Wien, Kunsthistorisches Museum.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/11\/03\/at-the-royal-academy-for-the-first-comprehensive-g-b-moronis-solo-in-the-uk\/7bcca0c1-9a78-4b78-933e-0c1c0cdea791-329x420\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"118\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/7bcca0c1-9a78-4b78-933e-0c1c0cdea791-329x420.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8632\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8632'>\n\t\t\t\tGiovanni Battista Moroni, Portrait of a Gentleman and His Two Daughters, c1572-75. Photograph: \u00a9 National Gallery of Ireland.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What we would suggest if you are visiting the exhibition that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalacademy.org.uk\/exhibition\/giovanni-battista-moroni\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Academy<\/a> in London is currently dedicating to the Lombard portrait painter Giovan Battista Moroni, 40 pieces gathered together for the artist&#8217;s first main exhibition in the UK, is this one: after having carefully observed the subject&#8217;s physiognomy, his garments, and the elements indicating his occupation, move your eyes on the background. You will discover that in many cases, such as \u201cThe tailor\u201d (1565-1570), the portrait of the aristocratic poet \u201cIsotta Brembati\u201d (c.1555) and that of the Jesuit writer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.khm.at\/en\/visit\/sammlungen\/picture-gallery\/selected-masterpieces\/\" target=\"_blank\">Giovanni Pietro Maffeis<\/a>, or also the beautiful and mysterious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.museopoldipezzoli.it\/#!\/it\/scopri\/collezioni\/518\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cBlack Knight\u201d<\/a> (1550-1575) \u2013 this latter is preserved at the Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan, who has not loaned the masterpiece to the RA \u2013, the setting is totally dissonant, but sometimes extraordinary expressive.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If Moroni&#8217;s figures are characterized by a precise realism, even if the subject is not an aristocrat but a specific ordinary man, the architectures containing them are in some way abstracted, not defined, suspended, and sometime detached from the character at the point that you have the feeling that they could have been painted by other hands, and perhaps also in another time. It is probably also because of this lack of homogeneity between the subject and the background \u2013 more then the fact that Vasari hadn&#8217;t mentioned him in the \u201cVite\u201d \u2013 that Moroni has always been considered a sort of minor master, even if Titian himself knows him very well, and suggested him to a couple Venetian patricians to take up governmental positions in Bergamo; and even if Moretto, Moroni&#8217;s master in Brescia, took him in high consideration too, and accepted to collaborate with him in Trento, as proved in a document from 1549. But today this almost surrealistic effect produced by Moroni&#8217;s portraits is what could make him so interesting and unpredictable for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; What we would suggest if you are visiting the exhibition that the Royal Academy in London is currently dedicating to the Lombard portrait painter Giovan Battista Moroni, 40 pieces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1796],"tags":[1844],"class_list":["post-8625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mapping-the-artscape","tag-giovanni-battista-moroni"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}