Bartolommeo Bonghi (died 1584)  1555

Dressed in his professorial robes and three-cornered hat, the legal scholar Bartolommeo Bonghi is shown holding a book on Roman civil law dedicated to him by its author in 1553. Through the open window is a tower that was one of the city of Bergamo’s most identifiable landmarks. Moroni was admired throughout northern Italy for this ability to capture his sitters "from life...