Portrait of Bartolomeo Bonghi

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Portrait of Bartolomeo Bonghi
ArtistGiovanni Battista Moroni
Year1553
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions101.6 cm × 81.9 cm (40.0 in × 32.2 in)
LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Portrait of Bartolomeo Bonghi is an oil on canvas portrait by Italian artist Giovanni Battista Moroni, created in 1553. It is held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York. It depicts Bartolomeo Bonghi, a 16th-century Italian legal scholar. The portrait presents its subject as he was in life; a man of wealth and status. The buildings seen in the top left-hand corner of the painting identify the site of the portrait's sitting as Bergamo in Lombardy.[1]

In the portrait, Bartolomeo Bonghi is dressed in a professorial robe and a hat. He is shown holding a book on Roman civil law.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Portrait of Bartolomeo Bonghi". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2018-10-27.