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Giovanni Battista Moroni

Mark Rylance dressed as Countess Olivia at the RA.

RA Exhibitions

4 years ago

Video: dressing an Italian countess

What was it like to wear the elaborate clothes of a Renaissance aristocrat, as seen in the portraits of Giovanni Battista Moroni? Award winning actor Mark Rylance reveals all.
Giovanni Battista Moroni, Gian Girolamo Albani

Opinion

4 years ago

Podcast: Jonathan Yeo discusses Giovanni Battista Moroni

As part of a series of events surrounding the exhibition of works by Giovanni Battista Moroni, contemporary portrait painter Jonathan Yeo talks to the RA’s Tim Marlow about the portraits of the Renaissance artist.
Giovanni Battista Moroni, The Tailor

RA Exhibitions

4 years ago

Podcast: Art critic Jonathan Jones discusses Moroni’s portrait ‘The Tailor’

Jonathan Jones of The Guardian explores the reasons why Giovanni Battista Moroni’s portrait ‘The Tailor’ is one of the greatest paintings in London.
Giovanni Battista Moroni, Portrait of M. A. Savelli

RA Exhibitions

4 years ago

Podcast: An introduction to Moroni by curator Arturo Galansino

From the small northern Italian town of Bergamo emerged one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th-century. Who was Giovanni Battista Moroni?
Giovanni Battista Moroni, A Gentleman in Adoration before the Baptism of Christ (detail)

RA Exhibitions

4 years ago

Why Moroni should be as famous as Titian

As visitors to the RA discover the work of Giovanni Battista Moroni, James Hall looks at the particular genius of this overlooked Renaissance portraitist – and why he lost out to the likes of Titian.
Savile Row tailor Bryan Manning

RA Exhibitions

4 years ago

A tailor meets ‘The Tailor’

We ask a Savile Row tailor to give us an insider’s perspective on Moroni’s iconic portrait ‘The Tailor’.
Installation view of 'Giovanni Battista Moroni' in The Sackler Wing of Galleries

RA Exhibitions

4 years ago

Curator’s picks: Giovanni Battista Moroni

Curator Arturo Galansino chooses his favourite five works from the critically-acclaimed exhibition.
Charles Saumarez Smith in front of Giovanni Battista Moroni's 'Prospero Alessandri', c. 1560 (Oil on canvas, 105 x 83 cm. Liechtenstein. The Princely Collections, Vaduz-Vienna)

Opinion

4 years ago

Point of view: What it’s like to sit for a portrait

As our exhibition of the great portraitist Giovanni Battista Moroni opens, the RA’s Charles Saumarez Smith reflects on the experience of having his own portrait painted.
Giovanni Battista Moroni, Portrait of a Young Lady (detail)

RA Exhibitions

4 years ago

Giovanni Battista Moroni: A beginner’s guide

In October, the RA opens an exhibition of work by one of the greatest portrait painters of all time, Giovanni Battista Moroni. But he is comparatively little known – certainly when compared to the giants of Italian painting like Titian, Veronese and Tintoretto. We spoke to exhibition curator Arturo Galansino to find out more about what sets Moroni apart.
Giovanni Battista Moroni, The Tailor (detail)

RA Exhibitions

4 years ago

Giovanni Battista Moroni: Cut from a different cloth

One of the greatest of all portraitists, Giovanni Battista Moroni captured his sitters’ psychology with exceptional honesty and insight. As the Academy stages the biggest survey in Britain of the Renaissance painter’s work, novelist Sarah Dunant evokes the many characters who emerged from his canvases.