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Bernardino (de Scapis) Luini

Bernardino (de Scapis) Luini (1480/82 - 1532) was active/lived in Italy.  Bernardino Luini is known for Graceful female figure painting, Madonnas with child, religious frescos.

Bernardino Luini (c. 1480/82 – June 1532) 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 Ador   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3887 characters.]  Artist bio

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