Bernardino Luini
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Bernardino Luini (c.1480-82-1532) was a North Italian painter from Leonardo's circle, a conservative painter who took "as much from Leonardo as his native roots enabled him to comprehend"[1]. Consequently many of his works were attributed to Leonardo. Both Luini and Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio were said to have worked with Leonardo directly. Luini is said to have been a pupil of Ambrogio Bergognone.
Born in Dumenza, he was a prominent Lombard painter of the early sixteenth century. Details of his life are scant. He worked in Milan, where he painted several frescoes in palaces and churches in and around the city. The best known of these are the frescoes for Villa Pelucca in Sesto San Giovanni (now in the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan). In circa 1525, he completed a secreis of frescos on the life of the Virgin and Christ for the church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli in Saronno. He was known especially for his graceful female figures with slightly squinted eyes, called Luinesque by Vladimir Nabokov[2]. He died in Milan.
[edit] Selected works
- Madonna with Sts Augustine and Margaret, Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris. Signed "Bernardino Milasnese", and dated 1507. "An index of the solidity of Luini's training in a veristic, rigid Quattrocento style" (Freedberg 1993:390), before the transmorming, but supficial influence of Leonardo's style.
- Virgin, Child, and St. John (c. 1510), National Gallery, London. Another version in Fogg Art Museum, Boston.
- Madonna Enthroned, abbey of Chiaravalle (c. 1512) [1]
- Christ among the Doctors (c. 1515-30), National Gallery, London
- Frescoes from the Capella di S. Giuseppe, S. Maria della Pace, (1518-20) Detatched, in the Brera Gallery. [2]
- St. Catherine, National Gallery, London. Another version is in Hermitage, St. Petersburg) [3]
- Salome, Ball State Museum, Indiana [4]
- Conversion of Mary Magdalen, San Diego [5]
- Fresco cycles for city and country houses of the Rabia family (1520-25) Now in the Brera, Berlin, Washington (National Gallery of Art Procris and Cephalus from Casa Rabia, Milan ) and elsewhere. Several panel paintings also at the National Gallery, Washington DC.
- Madonna and Child with St. John, Liechtenstein Collection, Vienna [6]
- Frescoes of the Life of Christ and the Life of the Virgin. (1525) S. Maria dei Miracoli, Saronno.
- Adoration of the Magi, detached fresco, 1520-25 (Musée du Louvre) Alluded to by Marcel Proust
- "Holy Family with the Infant St John", Museo del Prado, Madrid. Panel, 100 x 84 cm. Compare with da Vinci's "Madonna/Virgin of the Rocks" at Louvre and National Gallery London [7]
[edit] Sources
- Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). in Pelican History of Art: Painting in Italy, 1500-1600, p 390-391.
- Lavin, Irving (1954). in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes: Cephalus and Procris: Transformations of an Ovidian Myth, p 260-87, 366-72.
