id:			137135
accession number:	1962.1
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.1
updated:		2023-08-25 11:18:41.785000

Portrait of Vincenzo Guarignoni, c. 1572. Giovanni Battista Moroni (Italian, 1525–1578). Oil on canvas; 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Adele C. and Howard P. Eells, Jr., in memory of Howard Parmelee Eells 1962.1

title:				Portrait of Vincenzo Guarignoni
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creation date:			c. 1572
creation date earliest:		1567
creation date latest:		1577
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creditline:			Gift of Adele C. and Howard P. Eells, Jr., in memory of Howard Parmelee Eells
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culture:	Italy, Bergamo, 16th century
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	P - Italian 16th & 17th Century
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Giovanni Battista Moroni (Italian, 1525–1578)  - artist

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measurements: 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.)
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	inscription:	Inscribed at bottom: "VINCENT. GVARINON. AN. AET. XXXXV / MDLXXII"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review - 1962
	opening date:   1962-10-24T04:00:00
	<i>Year in Review - 1962</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24-November 25, 1962).

	title:		Portraiture: The Image of the Individual
	opening date:   1983-11-22T05:00:00
	<i>Portraiture: The Image of the Individual</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984).

	title:		Giovan Battista Moroni, The glance on reality
	opening date:   2004-11-13T00:00:00
	<i>Giovan Battista Moroni, The glance on reality</i>. Museo Adriano Bernareggi, Bergamo, Italy (organizer) (November 13, 2004-April 3, 2005).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* London, Royal Academy of Art, 1908: "Winter Exhibition," cat. no. 38. <br>Cleveland, Kinney and Levan Building, 1913: "Cleveland Art loan Exposition," cat. no. 138D. <br>CMA, 1928: "Representative Art through the Ages," (no catalogue). <br>CMA, November 1962: "Year in Review," cat., Bull., 9Nov. 1962), no. 94, p. 204, repr. <br>CMA, November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984: "Portraiture: The Image of the Individual," no catalogue. <br>Museo Adrian Bernareggi, Bergamo, Italy (11/13/2004 - 4/3/2005): "Giovan Battista Moroni, The glance on reality" ex. cat. no. 24, p. 166-167.

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PROVENANCE

	Count Leon Miniszech (sale: Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, April 9-11, 1902, no. 23);
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	[Agnew, London];
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	C. Fairfax Murray, London;
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	[Julius Bohler, Munich, 1908];
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	Mr. and Mrs. Howard P. Eells, Cleveland, 1913;
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	Maude Stager Eells, Cleveland (unsold, Parke Bernet, New York, November 29, 1961, no. 10, illus.), by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1962.
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wall description:
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.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 96
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n120

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 96
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n120

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 112
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n132

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 378; Mentioned: p. 379
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	Facchinetti, Simone, and Giovanni Battista Moroni. Giovanni Battista Moroni: opera completa. 2021, 345
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 345-346, cat. 156.
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IMAGES

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