[1] Portraits of important persons and personages of Italy — merchants, aristocrats, and nobles — were the representational speciality of the artist Giovanni Battista Moroni, given that his influences included Tiziano and Lorenzo Lotto, and painterly tutelage under Moretto da Brescia.

It is assumed that the subject is a member of the Marinoni family of Desenzano al Serio who, gave up their painter's workshop to move to Venice to take up the wool trade.

Moroni was among the first painters to depict important people of the wealthy bourgeoisie, contrary to the custom of his time, which exclusively portrayed the financial or ecclesiastical aristocracy.

He wears wide puffed trousers in the fashion of his time, a jacket called a doublet from which emerges a white gorget (pleated collar) similar to the cuffs protruding from the sleeves.

In the dignity of the movement and in the truthfulness of the image, in knowing how to represent the seriousness of the gaze of someone who carries out a job that is civil but which it is placed at the same level of intensity of thought and concentration of a literary activity, he brought the painting his deserving fame.