Champlin, John Denison, 1834-1915, Perkins, Charles C. (Charles Callahan), 1823-1886 · New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 315
2 ; (1884), i.337 ; niustr. Zeitg. (1881), i. 30. MOPtETTO, IL, born at Brescia about1498, died there in 1555. Venetian school;real name Alessandro Bonvicino, but com-monly called Moretto or Moretto da Brescia.Said to have been a pupil of Titians, butprobaljly only a diligent student of hisworks,… … his colour foreshadowed the coming of Pa-olo Veronese. He aided Ferramola in 1518in painting an organscreen for the oldcathedral, Brescia,and Romanino in1521 in the decora-tions in S. GiovanniEvangelista, B r e s -cia. In later yearshe painted much forthis church, one ofhis best efforts beingthe…
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