Giovanni Battista Moroni (Italian, 1520/24–1578)
Gian Lodovico Madruzzo
INV-4081
Giovanni Battista Moroni (Italian, 1520/24–1578)1551–52
Gian Lodovico Madruzzo
Giovanni Battista Moroni (Italian, 1520/24–1578) →sixteenth century16th Centuryoil on canvaspaint
Date
1551–52
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
199.8 × 116 cm (78 5/8 × 45 5/8 in.); Framed: 237.5 × 152.4 × 7.6 cm (93 1/2 × 60 × 3 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
One of the most accomplished painters working in the realist tradition of the Lombardy region of Northern Italy, Giovanni Battista Moroni was above all an outstanding portraitist. Here, he depicted Gian Lodovico Madruzzo. Moroni painted this commanding likeness—along with that of the subject’s brother, Gian Federico Madruzzo (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC)—during the Council of Trent, a meeting to address challenges to the Catholic Church posed by the Protestant Reformation. Gian Lodovico Madruzzo eventually succeeded his uncle as prince-bishop, ruler of the city of Trent, in 1567.
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