MORONI, Giovanni Battista
Italian Mannerist Painter, ca.1520-1578
.Italian painter. He was the most significant painter of the 16th-century school of Bergamo and is best known for his portraits, which feature a naturalistic rendering of both faces and costume and an objective approach to character. Related Paintings of MORONI, Giovanni Battista :. | Gian Lodovico Madruzzo ag | Portrait of Pietro Secco Suardo | The Taylor sg | David and Jonathan | Saint Jerome in the Desert | Related Artists: R. Talbot KellyEnglish, 1861 - 1934 Francois-Auguste Biard(June 30, 1799 - June 20, 1882) was a French genre painter.
Born at Lyon, he traveled around the world, sketching on the way. He was particularly successful in rendering burlesque groups.
His painting, Scenes on the Coast of Africa, depicted on the right, was the inspiration behind Isaac Julien's short film The Attendant (1993). Biard was a known abolitionist against the Atlantic slave trade.
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