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    • Moretto da Brescia

    Italian painter (c. 1498 – c. 1554)

    Moretto da Brescia

    Portrait of Moretto da Brescia, by Carlo Ridolfi (1654)

    Born

    Alessandro Bonvicino


    c. 1498

    Rovato, Italy

    DiedDecember 1554
    Known forPainting
    MovementHigh Renaissance

    Alessandro Bonvicino (also Buonvicino) (c. 1498 – possibly 22 December 1554), more commonly known as Moretto, or in Italian Il Moretto da Brescia (the Moor of Brescia), was an Italian Renaissance painter from Brescia, where he also mostly worked.

    His dated works span the period from 1524 to 1554, but he was already described as a master in 1516. He was mainly a painter of altarpieces that tend towards sedateness, mostly for churches in and around Brescia, but also in Bergamo, Milan, Verona, and Asola; many remain in the churches they were painted for.

    The majority of these are on canvas, but a considerable number, including some large pieces, are created on wood pa