# MORETTO da Brescia [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1498–1554 - Profession: painter - School: Italian ## Biography Moretto da Brescia \(originally Alessandro Bonvicino\), Italian painter, active mainly in his native Brescia and the neighbourhood. He was a pupil of Titian and certainly his influence is apparent in Moretto's work. He was the leading Brescian painter of his day and had a large practice as a painter of altarpieces and other religious works, the best of which display an impressive gravity and a poetic feeling for nature \( St Giustina with a Donor\). However, his portraits, although much less numerous, are considered to be generally of higher quality and of greater importance historically. It seems likely that he introduced the independent full-length portrait to Italy, for although Vasari credits Titian with this distinction. Moretto's Portrait of a Gentleman of 1526 in the National Gallery, London, antedates any known example by Titian by several years. He passed on the thoughtful qualities to his pupil Moroni. ## Related artworks - [A Saint Monk]() - [Allegory of Faith]() - [Count Fortunato Martinengo Cesaresco]() - [Ecce Homo]() - [Female portraits in front of landscapes]() - [Female portraits in front of landscapes]() - [Female portraits in front of landscapes]() - [Holy Family]() - [Madonna with Child and St Anthony]() - [Madonna with Child and the Young St John]() - [Pietà]() - [Portrait of a Boy with his Nurse]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()