Giovanni Battista Moroni exhibition at the Royal Academy

8 November 2014, 00:00 | Updated: 15 December 2016, 11:50

See this dazzling show of paintings by one of the greatest portraitists of 16th-century Italy at the RA's Sackler Wing at Burlington House, Piccadilly.

Outstanding works by Giovanni Battista Moroni (c.1520-1579)

Giovanni Battista Moroni is the first-ever comprehensive exhibition of the artist's work in the UK. This dazzling show is now open in the RA's Sackler Wing at Burlington House, Piccadilly.

Giovanni Battista Moroni was one of the greatest portraitists of 16th-century Italy. Famed for his gift for capturing the exact likeness of his sitters, he created portraits that are as penetrating and powerful now as they were more than 400 years ago. You will be transfixed by their psychological depth and immediacy.

Moroni’s portraits depict the people of the world and time in which he lived, from elegant men and women of high society shown in glittering dress to members of the middle class engaged in their trade. What all of his works share is a startling naturalism and vitality, rarely matched by other artists of the period and anticipating the realistic style of Caravaggio and, later, Manet.

Encompassing his entire career, this exhibition is a long overdue celebration of an artist ahead of his time and ripe for rediscovery.

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Image at top: Giovanni Battista Moroni, Prospero Alessandri, c. 1560, Oil on canvas. 105 x 83 cm. Liechtenstein. The Princely Collections, Vaduz-Vienna. Photo © Liechtenstein. The Princely Collections, Vaduz-Vienna.

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