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| Bartolomeo Bonghi (died 1584) |
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| Photograph showing inscription and coat of arms removed during treatment in 1991 |
Bartolomeo Bonghi (died 1584)
Artist:Giovanni Battista Moroni (Italian, Albino, no later than 1524–1578 Albino)
Date:shortly after 1553
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:40 x 32 1/4 in. (101.6 x 81.9 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1913
Dressed in his professorial robes and three-cornered hat, the legal scholar Bartolommeo Bonghi is shown holding a book on Roman civil law dedicated to him by its author in 1553. Through the open window is a tower that was one of the city of Bergamo’s most identifiable landmarks. Moroni was admired throughout northern Italy for his ability to capture his sitters "from life," or "from nature," in the words of the Venetian artist Titian. Works such as this were doubtlessly studied by the young Caravaggio.
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