MORETTO da Brescia
(b. ca. 1498, Brescia, d. 1554, Brescia)

Count Sciarra Martinengo Cesaresco

1516-18
Oil on canvas, 114 x 94 cm
National Gallery, London

Moretto worked largely in Brescia, although he assimilated Venetian painting technique early in his career. Given its proximity to Milan, Brescia was culturally and religiously dependent upon the Lombard capital being part of its archdiocese in spite of belonging to Venice's mainland empire.