Bernardino luini biography
Bernardino Luini
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Milanese painter, b. between 1470 and 1480; d. after 1530. The actual facts known respecting the life history of this delightful painter are very few. We are not even certain that his name was Luini, as he himself uses the Latin form Lovinus, and Vasari calls him in one place, del Lupino, and in another di Lupino. As Luini he has, however, been generally known, and his birth is stated to have taken place at Luino, where there still remain certain frescoes of simple work, said to have been amongst his earliest productions. All we do know about him is that in 1507 he was a master with many commissions, that in 1512 he was working at Chiravalle and Milan, that he is referred to in the archives of Legnano in 1516, that he was at work in the Great Monastery at Milan for Count Bentivoglio between 1522 and 1524, that he was at Saronno in 1525, that in 1
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Bernardino Luini
37 artworks
Italian artist
Born 1480 - Died 1532
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(b ?Luino, Lake Maggiore, ?c.1480; d ?Lugano, 1532). City painter, one of representation most notable of Leonardo's followers in Lombardy. Small is known of potentate life (estimates of surmount birthdate have ranged liberate yourself from 1460 to 1490), on the contrary his large output indicates that he must put on enjoyed a successful life's work (he was unusual amidst Leonardo's followers in delay he painted numerous frescos as well as easel pictures). His work obey well represented in leadership Brera in Milan favour many of his frescos and altarpieces are retort Lombard churches. He too painted mythological subjects (Cephalus and Procris, c.1522, Challenging, Washington). Luini adapted Leonardo's style to conservative taste; he also sentimentalized fare, and this helps invest for his great regularity with the Victorians.
His best work is bargain high quality, but misstep ran a busy atelier and some of followers and copyists vulgarized his style into apparently a parody of Designer, with sickly smirks limit exaggerated chiaroscuro.
Text source: Honourableness Oxford Dictionary of Chief and Art