Giovanni Battista Moroni, Italian painter (born 1520)

Giovanni Battista Moroni

Italian painter (c. 1520/24 – 1578)

Giovanni Battista Moroni, also known as Giambattista Moroni was an Italian painter of the Mannerist school. Best known for his elegantly realistic portraits of the local nobility and clergy, he is considered one of the great portrait painters of the Cinquecento.