Each of Moretto’s rare portraits of the 1520s and 1530s demonstrates his innovative approach to the genre, culminating in the outstanding Portrait of a Man (National Gallery, London, NG 1025) of 1526, one the earliest full-length, life-size, independent portraits in Italy
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Inscription: Inscribed in Greek: [On lid] Here is your son…Here is your Mother (on either side of Christ’s head); Jesus; Mother of God; John; [on lid moving clockwise from upper left] Saint Demetrios; Saint Eustathios; Saint Lawrence; Luke; Mark; Thomas; James; Saint Damianos; Saint Kosmas; Saint Gregory the Miracle-Worker; Bartholomew; Matthew; Jude; Simon; [on side moving clockwise from upper left] Saint Anastasios; Saint Nicholas; Saint Platon; Saint Theodore; Saint Prokopios; Saint George; Saint Merkourios; Saint Eustratios; Saint Panteleimon; Saint Andrew; Saint John; Saint Paul; Saint Peter; [inside lid] Hail, full of grace!; The Nativity; Here is your son
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Excavated by Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter, 1911. Acquired by Carnarvon in the division of finds. Carnarvon Collection, 1911–1926. Carnarvon Collection purchased by the Museum from Lady Carnarvon, 1926
The statuettes of the child Amenemhab (26.7.1413a, b) and Huwebenef were found inside
Moroni’s portrait of the Bergamasque professor Bartolomeo Bonghi (died 1584) is one of his finest works from the 1550s. Bonghi is shown seated on a Savonarolan-style chair with a book in his left hand, gazing toward the viewer, and with a cityscape through the window beyond
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From the former transept portal of the cathedral of Saint-Lazare at Autun; Roidet-Haudaille (architect), Autun, France ; Abbé Victor Terret, Autun, France ; [ Jean Peslier, Vézelay (sold 1935)] ; [ Brummer Gallery, Paris and New York (1935–1947)]
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From the chapel of Château-de-Bouvreuil, Rouen (destroyed late 16th century; glass installed in the chapel of a building constructed on the same site (late 17th century–early 19th century); [ Art market, rue Saint-Remain, Rouen (sold 1905) ; Albert Gorge, Rouen (1905–sold shortly after 1910) ; [ Bacri Frères, Paris (acquired shortly after 1910–sold before 1935)] ; [ Michel Acézat Paris, 1878–1944 (acquired before 1935–until 1944)] ; his posthumous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris (November 24-25, 1969, no
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