Portrait of Fortunato Martinengo Cesaresco

Portrait of Fortunato Martinengo Cesaresco is a 1542 oil on canvas painting by Moretto da Brescia, now in the National Gallery, London.[1] X-ray photography during a 1973 restoration showed a table in front of the man with an open book on it.[2]

History

The earliest mention of the work is in a mid 19th-century inventory of count Teodoro Lechi's collection - the family archives add that he acquired the work in Brescia on 19 September 1843 and on 9 January 1854 sold it on to Charles Henfrey of Turin, where Lechi was exiled from 1849 to 1859.[3] In 1975 Cecil Gould cited documents in the National Gallery stating that in 1843 countess Marzia Martinengo Cesaresco had sold the painting to Lechi, who had married her daughter Clara.[4] It passed from Henfry to Otto Mündler in 1856 and two years later was acquired by its present owner.[5]

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gollark: Also they're entirely reliant on the city for electricity and water and stuff.
gollark: Context: you can't really grow food on tiny bits of soil on cardboard. You can't really grow much food on the tiny plots. You can't grow food fast enough for it to be useful in your "commune" in the middle of a city. You probably can't grow enough food *at all* in that area to feed the sort of population density cities typically have. You definitely can't really do it without much farming equipment and by just making a few tiny soil bits with plants in them.
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References
  1. "Catalogue entry".
  2. Pier Virgilio Begni Redona, Alessandro Bonvicino – Il Moretto da Brescia, Editrice La Scuola, Brescia 1988, p 381
  3. Pier Virgilio Begni Redona, pag. 378
  4. Cecil Gould, p. 156-158
  5. Pier Virgilio Begni Redona, Alessandro Bonvicino – Il Moretto da Brescia, Editrice La Scuola, Brescia 1988, p 378

Bibliography
  • (in Italian) Camillo Boselli, Il Moretto, 1498-1554, in "Commentari dell'Ateneo di Brescia per l'anno 1954 – Supplemento", Brescia 1954
  • Joseph Archer Crowe, Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle, A history of painting in North Italy, London 1871
  • (in Italian) Pietro Da Ponte, L'opera del Moretto, Brescia 1898
  • William Dickes, A greek motto misread at the National Gallery, in "Athenaeum", n.3423, 3 June 1893
  • György Gombosi, Moretto da Brescia, Basel 1943
  • Cecil Gould, The sixteenth-century italian schools, London 1975
  • (in Italian) Pompeo Molmenti, Il Moretto da Brescia, Firenze 1898
  • (in Italian) Pier Virgilio Begni Redona, Alessandro Bonvicino – Il Moretto da Brescia, Editrice La Scuola, Brescia 1988
  • (in Italian) Ottavio Rossi, Elogi historici di bresciani illustri, Brescia 1620
  • (in Italian) Adolfo Venturi, Storia dell'arte italiana, volume IX, La pittura del Cinquecento, Milano 1929


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