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Alessandro Bonvicino, called Il Moretto (the ‘Little Moor’), was born in Brescia, then under Venetian rule, in about (A tax return of gives his age as ‘about 50’.) His family had moved to Brescia from Ardesio, a village in the Seriana Valley, northeast of Bergamo. His father Pietro and uncle Alessandro were both minor artists. Ridolfi claims that he was a pupil of Titian, but this may merely reflect the strong influence of Titian evident in his work. He is first recorded as a painter in , when he collaborated with the local painter Floriano Ferramola in painting the organ shutters of the Duomo Vecchio at Brescia (now in the church of Santa Maria in Valvendra at Lovere). He worked very largely in his native city and its neighbourhood, but occasionally undertook commissions elsewhere (Bergamo, Milan and Verona). Many of his paintings were commissioned by confraternities in Brescia, and he was himself a member of the Scuola del Santissimo Sacrament•
If you have followed me on Instagram or Facebook, you&#;ve already seen that I have had a special project in November. inom have been painting a replica of an old painting and learning techniques that artists used already hundreds of years ago. These are called old mästare painting techniques. Famous old masters like Leonardo da Vinci and Johannes Vermeer used them when creating their masterpieces. My painting fryst vatten a copy of a detail from Moretto da Brescia&#;s painting &#;Portrait of a Lady as Salome.&#; I call mine &#;Dreaming Salome&#; because I gave her a more dreamy look and different meaning. The portrait was painted in the course organized by The National Museum of Finland. The teacher of the course was Emmi Mustonen.
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After painting my first oil painting, and the first one that uses these techniques, inom feel that there is still a lot to learn. So I will be painting another one with these techniques during the spring. However, I have already
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