Abbess Lucrezia Agliardi Vertova (1490?–1558), Giovanni Battista Moroni, 1557

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Abbess Lucrezia Agliardi Vertova (1490?–1558), 1557, Oil on canvas, 36 x 27 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Giovanni Battista Moroni (Italian, Albino, no later than 1524–1578 Albino), As the Latin inscription tells us, Abbess Lucrezia Agliardi Vertova founded the Carmelite convent of Saint Anne at Albino, outside Bergamo. This remarkably unidealized portrait of the widowed abbess hung there for centuries

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Size: 3977px × 5418px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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