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BERNARDINO LUINI
Bernardino Luini:
Cesare Cantù, Public
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- Bernardino Luini (1480-1532), (also
known as Bernardino Scapi) an
Italian Milanese painter, was a student and co-worker of
Leonardo DaVinci.
- His paintings are often confused with
DaVinci as their styles were so similar.
- He is listed as one of Leonardo’s followers and is said to have worked in the studio of a minor painter in Milan in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
- Luini had a profound knowledge of Leonardo’s work,
applying the latter’s precepts in his own paintings,
particularly with regard to composition and technique.
- He certainly has
a more extensive catalogue than Leonardo.
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Bernardino Luini was highly appreciated among 19th-century collectors for his compositions and the elegance of his style. Luini was both a painter of frescoes and of easel-format paintings. Little information is known regarding his life and many works previously attributed to him have been rejected in recent times, reducing his extensive oeuvre.
(Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid)
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