Holy Cross Standard
Painting by Moretto da Brescia
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The Holy Cross Standard is a 1520-1521 oil on canvas painting by Moretto da Brescia, commissioned by the Brescia's city council for the Company of the Guardians of the Holy Cross, guardians of the Sante Croci treasury at the city's Old Cathedral. It is now in the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo in the city.
History
The city council decided on the commission on 3 March 1520.
References
Bibliography (in Italy)
- Paolo Brognoli, Nuova Guida di Brescia, Brescia 1826
- Bernardino Faino, Catalogo Delle Chiese riuerite in Brescia, et delle Pitture et Scolture memorabili, che si uedono in esse in questi tempi, Brescia 1630
- Valerio Guazzoni, Bergamo per Lorenzo Lotto, conference papers and exhibition catalogue, Bergamo 1980
- Francesco Paglia, Il Giardino della Pittura, Brescia 1660
- Pier Virgilio Begni Redona, Alessandro Bonvicino - Il Moretto da Brescia, Editrice La Scuola, Brescia 1988
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Moretto da Brescia
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- Christ with the Cross (1518)
- The Dead Christ Adored by Saint Jerome and Saint Dorothy (1520–1521)
- Holy Cross Standard (1520–1521)
- Standard of Our Lady of Mercy (1520–1522)
- Salvation Triptych (1521–1524 or 1527–1528)
- Our Lady of Mount Carmel (c. 1522)
- Assumption of the Virgin (1524–1526)
- Portrait of a Man (1526)
- Supper at Emmaus (c. 1526)
- Madonna and Child with Saint Roch and Saint Sebastian (c. 1528)
- Orzinuovi Altarpiece (1525–1530}
- Lament over the Dead Christ (1526–1530)
- Sant'Eufemia Altarpiece (1526–1530)
- Assumption Altarpiece (1529–1530)
- St Anthony of Padua with Two Saints (1530)
- St Justina of Padua with a Donor (c. 1530)
- Madonna and Child with Saint Martin and Saint Catherine (c. 1530)
- Massacre of the Innocents (1531–1532)
- Saint Anthony Abbot (1530–1534)
- Coronation of the Virgin Altarpiece (c. 1534)
- The Deaf-Mute Filippo Viotti's Vision of the Virgin Mary (c. 1534)
- Annunciation (1535–1540)
- The Assassination of Saint Peter Martyr (1535–1540)
- Portrait of a Gentleman with a Letter (1535–1540)
- Chiesa di San Giovanni Evangelista Organ Case (c. 1535)
- Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints (1536–1537)
- Rovelli Altarpiece (1539)
- Adoration of the Shepherds with Saints Nazarius and Celsus (1540)
- Madonna and Child with Saints (Verona, 1540)
- Salomé (1540)
- Pralboino Altarpiece (1540–1545)
- Christ in Glory with Saint Peter and Saint Paul (c. 1540)
- Christ with the Eucharist and Saints Cosmas and Damian (c. 1540)
- Madonna and Child with Four Doctors of the Church (c. 1540–1545)
- Madonna and Child with Saints (London, c. 1540–1545)
- Madonna and Child with an Angel (c. 1540–1550)
- Christ with Moses and Solomon (1541–1542)
- Portrait of Fortunato Martinengo Cesaresco (1542)
- Luzzago Altarpiece (1542)
- Madonna and Child with Four Saints (c. 1543)
- Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine (c. 1543)
- Pentecost (1543–1544)
- Supper in the House of Simon the Pharisee (1544)
- Christ with the Eucharist and Saints Bartholomew and Roch (c. 1545)
- Portrait of an Ecclesiastic (c. 1545)
- Christ and the Angel (c. 1550)