Portrait of Vincenzo Guarignoni (c. 1572): Art, History and Details

Portrait of Vincenzo Guarignoni (c. 1572) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Giovanni Battista Moroni (Italian, 1525–1578).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The Latin inscription gives the sitter's name and age (45), as well as the painting's date. Guarignoni came from a prominent family in the northern Italian city of Bergamo. His direct and thoughtful gaze enhances the painting’s lifelike quality, while the solemn detachment conveys dignity and excellence rather than an exact personality, a common approach in Renaissance portraiture.

Object facts

• Title: Portrait of Vincenzo Guarignoni
• Date: c. 1572
• Creator attribution: Giovanni Battista Moroni (Italian, 1525–1578)
• Culture: Italy, Bergamo
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: Framed: 91 x 80 x 8 cm (35 13/16 x 31 1/2 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 63 x 50.8 cm (24 13/16 x 20 in.)
• Collection: P - Italian 16th & 17th Century
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1962.1

Collection credit

Gift of Adele C. and Howard P. Eells Jr., in memory of Howard Parmelee Eells

Further reading listed by the museum

• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
• Pillsbury, Edmund P. “Two Portraits by Giovanni Battista Moroni.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 58, no. 3 (March 1971): 74–84.

View the collection record

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