Moroni - History Lab https://historylab.es Wed, 18 May 2022 14:51:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Moroni - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Gabriel de la Cueva, Duke of Alburquerque https://historylab.es/gabriel-de-la-cueva-duke-of-alburquerque/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gabriel-de-la-cueva-duke-of-alburquerque Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:03 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/gabriel-de-la-cueva-duque-de-alburquerque/ Political history, power elites

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]]> Portrait of the Spanish aristocrat who was governor of Milan and viceroy of Navarre. Moroni was one of the great portraitists of the Renaissance, working in northern Italy and painting mainly members of the gentry and nobility rather than sovereigns or princes. The duke leans on a stone with the following inscription: Here this without fear and of death I have not dreaded

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