Cristoforo Moretti

Cristoforo Moretti (documented in Lombardy and Piedmont 1451 – 1475) was a Lombard painter of the quattrocento who worked in a late International Gothic style very similar to that of Michelino da Besozzo’s last period.

Between then and 1475 he is found variously in Milan, in Genoa, in Turin, in Casale, where he decorated the chapel of the Paleologi castle, and in Vercelli.

)[4] He is documented as part of team of artists, including Vincenzo Foppa and Giovanni Battista Montorfano forming an estimate for the paintings of Stefano dei Fedeli in a chapel of the Castle of Milan.

[5] His best-known work, and the only one surviving to bear his signature, is probably the polyptych painted for the chapel of Sant’Aquilino next to the Milanese church of S. Lorenzo Maggiore.

Three panels, depicting the Virgin and Child enthroned flanked by Saints Lawrence and Genesius of Rome (the latter playing a rebec), are today in the Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan.

Madonna and Child between two female saints. Fresco , attributed to Moretti, from the apse of S. Calimero , Milan.
Triptych with Madonna enthroned and Saints Genesius and Lawrence