Giovanni Battista Moroni

Moroni paints Bergamo life-size and unflattered — a tailor pausing with his shears, grey-green grounds, sober black dress, and an honest, level gaze.

Giovanni Battista Moroni (1525–1578) was a painter from Italy, associated with Renaissance.

The 15th–16th-century rebirth of classical ideals — balanced composition, convincing perspective, anatomy, and humanist subjects. Renaissance →

More Renaissance painters: Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, Raphael, Titian.

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The Tailor — Giovanni Battista Moroni
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