''Portrait of a Man'' is an oil on canvas painting by Moretto da Brescia, dated of 1526, now in the

National Gallery, London The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The current Director o ...

, which acquired it in 1876 from the Fenaroli Avogadro Collection, from Brescia. It is held to be the first surviving standing life-size portrait in art history, predating those of Titian.Pier Virgilio Begni Redona, p. 185

References

Bibliography

* Camillo Boselli, 'Il Moretto, 1498-1554', in ''Commentari dell'Ateneo di Brescia per l'anno 1954 – Supplemento'', Brescia, 1954. * Giovanni Battista Carboni, ''Le Pitture e Scolture di Brescia che sono esposte al pubblico con un'appendice di alcune private Gallerie'', Brescia, 1760. * Pietro Da Ponte, ''L'opera del Moretto'', Brescia, 1898. *György Gombosi, ''Moretto da Brescia'', Basel, 1943. * Cecil Gould, National Gallery catalogues. ''The sixteenth-century Italian schools (excluding the Venetian), London, 1962. *Cecil Gould, ''The sixteenth-century Italian schools'', London, 1975. * Pier Virgilio Begni Redona, ''Alessandro Bonvicino – Il Moretto da Brescia'', Brescia, Editrice La Scuola, 1988. * Giorgio Vasari, ''Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori e architettori scritte da M. Giorgio Vasari pittore aretino – Con nuove annotazioni e commenti di Gaetano Milanesi'', Firenze, 1881.

External links

National Gallery catalog entry
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