Portrait of a Gentleman with a Letter
C. 1540 painting by Moretto da Brescia
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Portrait of a Gentleman with a Letter is a 1535–1540 painting by Moretto da Brescia, now in the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo in Brescia, to which it was given in 1854.[1] No record of it before that dates survives, though some art historians have identified it with a lost Portrait of Pietro Aretino recorded in correspondence.[2]
References
Bibliography (in Italian)
- Camillo Boselli, Il Moretto, 1498-1554, in "Commentari dell'Ateneo di Brescia per l'anno 1954 - Supplemento", Brescia 1954
- Pietro Da Ponte, L'opera del Moretto, Brescia 1898
- Ugo Fleres, La pinacoteca dell'Ateneo in Brescia in "Le gallerie nazionali italiane", anno 4, 1899
- Gustavo Frizzoni, La Pinacoteca comunale Martinengo in Brescia in "Archivio storico dell'arte", Brescia 1889
- Giovanni Morelli, Kunstkritische Studien über italienische Malerei - Die Galerien Borghese und Doria Panfili in Rom, Leipzig 1890
- Giorgio Nicodemi, La pinacoteca Tosio e Martinengo, Bologna 1927
- Gaetano Panazza, I Civici Musei e la Pinacoteca di Brescia, Bergamo 1958
- Gaetano Panazza, La Pinacoteca e i Musei di Brescia, nuova edizione, Bergamo 1968
- Pier Virgilio Begni Redona, Alessandro Bonvicino – Il Moretto da Brescia, Editrice La Scuola, Brescia 1988
- Adolfo Venturi, Storia dell'arte italiana, volume IX, La pittura del Cinquecento, Milano 1929
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Moretto da Brescia
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