Giovanni Battista Moroni, Portrait of a Young Woman, ca. 1575. Photo: Michael Bodycomb
Giovanni Battista Moroni, Giovanni Gerolamo Grumelli, called Il Cavaliere in Rosa (The Man in Pink), dated 1560. Fondazione Museo di Palazzo Moroni, Bergamo - Lucretia Moroni Collection. Photo: Mauro Magliani
Moroni’s imitation of life applied as well to the sitters’ clothings and attributes. For this reason, the curators decided to display the paintings alongside Renaissance jewelry, armor, and other luxury goods.
Giovanni Battista Moroni, Isotta Brembati, ca. 1555–56. Fondazione Museo di Palazzo Moroni, Bergamo - Lucretia Moroni Collection. Photo: Fondazione Museo di Palazzo Moroni, Bergamo