1. Antonis Mor has been referred to as Antoon, Anthonius, Anthonis or Mor van Dashorst, and as Antonio Moro, Antonio Mouro, Anthony More, etc.
16 Facts About Antonis Mor
1. 2.
Antonis Mor developed a formal style for court portraits, largely based on Titian, that was extremely influential on court painters across Europe, especially in the Iberian Peninsula, where it created a tradition that led to Diego Velazquez.
3.
Antonis Mor was born in Utrecht, Netherlands, by some estimation between 1516 and 1520.
4.
Antonis Mor's earliest known work is a portrait which is in a collection in Stockholm, dated 1538.
5.
In 1547 Antonis Mor was received as a member of the Venerable Guild of St Luke at Antwerp, and shortly afterwards he attracted the attention of Cardinal Granvelle, Bishop of Arras, who became his steady patron.
6.
Antonis Mor probably visited Italy, where he copied some works by Titian, notably the Danae.
7.
Antonis Mor probably traveled via Valladolid, where he painted the portraits of Maximilian II and his wife Maria of Austria, their daughter Anna and the son of Philip II of Spain, Don Carlos.
8.
In Lisbon, Antonis Mor portrayed King John III, Queen Catharine, Prince Joao Manuel and Philip II's future wife, Princess Maria of Portugal.
9.
Antonis Mor was very productive after Philip's ascension to the throne, and produced some of his most important portraits in this period, such as the portrait of Prince William I van Oranje-Nassau, the portrait of Alessandro Farnese and a new portrait of Philip II.
10.
That Antonis Mor stayed at the Spanish court is confirmed by the letters which Philip regularly sent to Antonis Mor after he had left again in 1561.
11.
On his return to the Netherlands, Antonis Mor probably traveled back and forth between Utrecht, Antwerp and Brussels.
12.
When Granvelle returned to France and the Netherlands showed increasing social and political unrest, Antonis Mor experienced some financial hardship.
13.
In 1559 and 1562 Antonis Mor painted two portraits of Margareta of Parma.
14.
The last portrait attributed to Antonis Mor is the Portrait of Hubertus Goltzius, dated 1576.
15.
Toward the end of his life, Antonis Mor focused on history paintings of religious and mythological subjects, but in this field of work he would never equal his earlier success as a portrait painter.
16.
Antonis Mor is believed to have been working on a Circumcision for the Cathedral of Antwerp when he died in 1576.