The Orator Giovan Pietro Maffeis (?)
around 1560/65, Artist: Giovanni Battista Moroni
The Orator Giovan Pietro Maffeis (?)
This portrait probably depicts G. P. Maffeis (1533–1603), holder of the Chair of Rhetoric in Genoa and Secretary of the Republic, who entered the Jesuit order in Rome in 1565 and became Professor of Rhetoric at the Collegio Romano. Moroni, a native of Bergamo, worked almost exclusively as a portraitist, combining in his pictures a Lombardian sense of reality with the rich colourism of Venetian painting.
Object data
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Italian, Lombard
Dated
around 1560/65
Artist
Giovanni Battista Moroni (um 1520/1524 Albino bei Bergamo - 1578 Bergamo) - GND
Material
Canvas
Dimensions
88 cm × 70 cm
Framed: 105 cm × 88 cm × 7 cm
Image rights
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Gemäldegalerie
Inv. No.
Gemäldegalerie, 88
Provenance
1636 Coll. Bartolomeo della Nave, Venice; 1638-1649 Coll. Hamilton; Coll. Leopold Wilhelm
Depiction/Person
Giovan Pietro Maffeis (?) (1533 - 1603)
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