Review: First Moroni exhibition in North America features one of the most celebrated portraits of the Renaissance
Giovanni Battista Moroni. “The Tailor ,” circa 1570. Oil on canvas. By Sebastian Smee Sebastian Smee Art critic Email Bio Follow Art critic February 27 at 1:19 PM One of the most celebrated portraits of the Renaissance has traveled from London to New York to take its place in a jewel of an exhibition.
The portrait is by Giovanni Battista Moroni. If you haven’t heard of him, don’t worry. His work warrants attention — lots of it — but there aren’t many of his paintings in the United States, which is why “Moroni: The Riches of Renaissance Portraiture” at the Frick Collection is such a treat. How much of real life do we want to see in paintings and art galleries? “The more the better” would be the dutifully democratic response today. But it wasn’t always so.
So Moroni’s “Tailor” really marked a profound democratic turn in portraiture, one that paved the way for portraits by Rembrandt and Frans Hals in the next century, and for moderns such as Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, Lucian Freud and Alice Neel.
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