The Orator Giovan Pietro Maffeis (?)
around 1560/65 | Giovanni Battista Moroni
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.
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.
Artist:
Giovanni Battista Moroni (um 1520/1524 Albino bei Bergamo - 1578 Bergamo) DNB
Depiction/Person:
Giovan Pietro Maffeis (?) (1533 - 1603)
Time:
around 1560/65
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Italian, Lombard
Material/technology:
Canvas
Dimensions:
88 cm × 70 cm
Framed: 105 cm × 88 cm × 7 cm
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie
Invs.
Gemäldegalerie, 88
Provenance
1636 Coll. Bartolomeo della Nave, Venice; 1638-1649 Coll. Hamilton; Coll. Leopold Wilhelm