Giovanni Battista Moroni was an Italian painter known primarily for his elegantly realistic portraits of the local nobility and clergy, and is considered one of the great portraitists of the Cinquecento. Moroni trained with Alessandro Bonvicino in Brescia, where he was the principal studio assistant during the 1540s, and worked in Trento, Bergamo and his hometown of Albino. His two brief periods in Trento coincided with the first two sessions of the Council of Trent, 1546-48 and 1551-53. On both occasions, Moroni painted several religious works, as well as the series of portraits for which he is remembered. During his stay in Trent he also came into contact with Titian and with Count-Bishop Cristoforo Madruzzo, whose portrait is by Titia...