# Abbess Lucrezia Agliardi Vertova [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MORONI, Giovanni Battista]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 91 x 69 cm ## Commentary Abbess Lucrezia Agliardi Vertova c. 1556 Oil on canvas, 91 x 69 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The abbess, descended from one of the most important families in Bergamo, was widowed young and went on to found the Carmelite convent of Sant'Anna in Albino in 1525. The inscription on the painting records her likely death date of 1557. Moroni has been unsparing in his depiction of the abbess: she is unadorned and wrinkled and has a small goitre. At the same time this is a painting of marvelous elegance, with its painterly medley of grays and its sympathetic portrayal of the elderly woman's inward gaze. ## Related artworks - [A Gentleman in Adoration before the Madonna]() - [Gian Lodovico Madruzzo]() - [Portrait of a Gentleman]() - [Portrait of a Gentleman]() - [Portrait of a Man]() - [Portrait of a Man]() - [Portrait of a Man]() - [Portrait of a Soldier]() - [Portrait of Antonio Navagero]() - [Portrait of Don Gabriel de la Cueva, later Duke of Alburquerque \(detail\)]() - [Portrait of Don Gabriel de la Cueva, later Duke of Alburquerque]() - [Portrait of Jacopo Foscarini]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()