I read Sanford Schwartz’s “The Moment of Moroni,” which appears in August 16, 2012, issue of the New York Review of Books, ’cuz I thought it might have something to with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Turns out it was just about some painter dude. I was pleasantly surprised, then, when, in his discussion of the 2004 “Painters of Reality: The Legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy” exhibit at the Met, Schwartz remarked, “Among the few painters to make immediately distinct impressions were Moroni and the slightly younger Sofonisba Anguissola, who was represented by riveting paintings and drawings of herself and of her family members.”
Sofonisba! Sure, it’s no Sophronia, but it’ll do.
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