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Bernardino Luini - Cephalus and Pan at the Temple of Diana

Cephalus and Pan at the Temple of Diana (c. 1520-1522)

Bernardino Luini (Italian, c. 1480-1532)
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Bernardino Luini

Bernardino Luini was a North Italian painter from Leonardo's circle during the High Renaissance. Both Luini and Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio were said to have worked with Leonardo directly; he was described as having taken "as much from Leonardo as his native roots enabled him to comprehend". Consequently, many of his works were attributed to Leonardo. He was known especially for his graceful female figures with elongated eyes, called Luinesque by Vladimir Nabokov.

Luini was born as Bernardino de Scapis in Runo, a frazione of Dumenza, near Lake Maggiore. Details of his life are scant.

In 1500 he moved to Milan with his father. According to Lomazzo, he trained under Giovan Stefano Scotto, although for others he was a pupil of Ambrogio Bergognone. In 1504-1507 he was probably in Treviso, as attested by a Madonna with Child signed Bernardinus Mediolanensis faciebat which is however of disputed attribution. His first fresco works are an Adoration of the Magi in San Pietro of Luino (c. 1505) and the attributed fresco in the presbytery of Monza Cathedral with St. Gerard of the Painters.

Luini returned to Milan in 1509, receiving a commission for a polyptych from which today only St. Anthony of Padua in the Museo Poldi Pezzoli, influenced by Bernardino Zenale's Cantù Polyptych remains. In the 1510s he painted frescoes in the Oratory of Santa Maria Nuova in Pilastrello, a Lamentation of the dead Christ in Santa Maria della Passione, a Madonna della Buonanotte in the Abbey of Chiaravalle, frescoes in San Giorgio di Palazzo (1516) and in the Certosa di Pavia, and others.

From 1509 to 1514 Luini completed the frescoes for the Villa Pelucca in Sesto San Giovanni (now in the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan). One of his best known works commissioned by Girolamo Rabia, for whom he also painted mythological scenes in the Palazzo Rabia (now in the Berlin Gemäldegalerie and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.).

In 1521 he travelled to Rome, where he was influenced by Raphael's style. This is evident in Luini's subsequent frescoes in the Villa La Pelucca executed between 1520 and 1523, as well as in other works now at the Brera. In 1523, Luini painted a polyptych depicting the Enthroned Madonna and Child surrounded by Angels with Musical Instruments, and surmounted by God the Father, found in the Basilica of San Magno, Legnano.

Around 1525 he completed a series of frescoes on the life of the Virgin and Christ for the sanctuary of Santa Maria dei Miracoli in Saronno; the fresco in the counterfaçade of Sant'Abbondio in Como was painted the same year. According to legend, he instigated the discovery of amaretto while at Saronno. Other works from his middle period include a Holy Family in the Museo del Prado, two Salome in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Uffizi and a Portrait of a Lady in the National Gallery of Art. A Virgin with Child and Saints from 1526 is in the Lee Fareham collection of Richmond.

In 1529 Luini completed one of his masterworks, the grand Passion and Crucifixion fresco at Santa Maria degli Angeli in Lugano, paired with other works in the same church. In 1531 he returned to the Saronno sanctuary to complete other frescoes. Later in his career, Luini was increasingly influenced by Leonardo, as shown by the St. Anne in the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana and the St. Catherine in the Hermitage.

He died in Milan. His son Aurelio was also an accomplished painter.

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Procris Pierced by Cephalus’ Javelin

Procris Pierced by Cephalus’ Javelin (c. 1520-1522)

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Portrait of a Woman

Portrait of a Woman (early 16th century)

Bernardino Luini (Italian, c. 1480-1532)
Cephalus and the Nymphs

Cephalus and the Nymphs (c. 1520-1522)

Bernardino Luini (Italian, c. 1480-1532)
The Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine

The Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine (1520)

Bernardino Luini (Italian, c. 1480-1532)
St Catherine of Alexandria

St Catherine of Alexandria (1495 – 1532)

Bernardino Luini (Italian, c. 1480-1532)
Madonna with the Christ Child

Madonna with the Christ Child (1515-1525)

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Procris and the Unicorn

Procris and the Unicorn (c. 1520-1522)

Bernardino Luini (Italian, c. 1480-1532)
The Virgin and Child with a Columbine

The Virgin and Child with a Columbine (c.1520 - c.1530)

Bernardino Luini (Italian, c. 1480-1532)
Madonna and Child

Madonna and Child

Bernardino Luini (Italian, c. 1480-1532)
Portrait of a Lady

Portrait of a Lady (1520-1525)

Bernardino Luini (Italian, c. 1480-1532)
Portrait of a man

Portrait of a man

Bernardino Luini (Italian, c. 1480-1532)
The Misfortunes of Cephalus

The Misfortunes of Cephalus (c. 1520-1522)

Bernardino Luini (Italian, c. 1480-1532)
The Conversion of the Magdalen

The Conversion of the Magdalen (ca. 1520)

Bernardino Luini (Italian, c. 1480-1532)
The Magdalen

The Magdalen (c. 1525)

Bernardino Luini (Italian, c. 1480-1532)
Madonna With Child

Madonna With Child (1480–1532)

Bernardino Luini (Italian, c. 1480-1532)
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