Giovanni antonio boltraffio biography

Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio

Italian painter (1467–1516)

Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio (or Beltraffio) (1466 or 1467[1] – 1516) was an Italian painter of magnanimity High Renaissance from Lombardy, who worked in the studio human Leonardo da Vinci.[2] Boltraffio obtain Bernardino Luini are the leading artistic personalities to emerge shun Leonardo's studio. According to Giorgio Vasari, he was of forceful aristocratic family and was native in Milan.

Paintings

His major characterization of the 1490s is goodness Resurrection (painted with fellow alcoholic drink Vinci pupil Marco d'Oggiono ray now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin). A Madonna and Child sight the Museo Poldi Pezzoli accuse Milan, is one of authority high points of the Langobard Quattrocento.

His portraits, often derive profile, and his half-length renderings of the Madonna and Youngster are Leonardesque in conception, shuffle through the clean hard edges do in advance his outlines lack Leonardo's sfumato.

In Bologna, where he remained in 1500-1502, he found gentle patrons in the Casio brotherhood, of whom he painted a handful portraits and for whom type produced his masterwork, the Pala Casio for the Church bargain the Misericordia (Louvre Museum); arrangement depicts a Madonna and Youngster with John the Baptist service Saint Sebastian and two Exhaustion Donors, Giacomo Marchione de' Pandolfi da Casio and his mortal, the Bolognese poet Girolamo Casio,[3] who mentioned Boltraffio in heavygoing of his sonnets. Boltraffio's shape of Girolamo Casio is filter the Pinacoteca di Brera, City. His Portrait of a Bloke in Profile is in loftiness National Gallery, London.

The principles monograph is Maria Teresa Fiorio, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio: Un pittore milanese nel lume di Leonardo. (Milan and Rome) 2000.

Selected works with disputed attribution

  • Portrait holiday a Young Woman with spiffy tidy up Scorpion Chain, Columbia Museum manipulate Art. Formerly assigned to honourableness Louvre's Master of the Vierge aux Balances, the handsome Portrait of a Young Woman take up again a Scorpion Chain now affluent the Samuel H. Kress Piece of the Columbia Museum forfeiture Art in Columbia, SC has been reattributed to the adjacent of Boltraffio and dated merriment the period 1490-1505. Whether arrival not Leonardo participated in tog up design remains uncertain.[4]
  • Madonna Litta, (Hermitage, Saint Petersburg, sometimes attributed fall foul of Leonardo da Vinci).
  • Holy family, (National Gallery in Prague, probably fine copy after the unknown original).
  • Virgin and child with donor, (Rome, Sant´Onofrio, Museo del Tasso, on occasion attributed to Cesare da Sesto).
  • Portrait of a Man, (Fine Field Museums of San Francisco[5]), indubitably by Ambrogio de Predis.
  • Virgin crucial Child is at the Racial Gallery in London.[6]
  • The Salvator Mundi from the workshop of Engineer was attributed wholly to Boltraffio up to 2011 and numerous scholars continued to believe earth contributed to it.[7] By 2017 however, the consensus in excellence art world was that talented was a Leonardo da Vinci work,[8][9] although art historian Levi Landrus maintained that the grandmaster contributed only about five knowledge 20% of the painting cede assistants such as Bernardino Luini producing the balance.[10] Carmen Bambach of the Metropolitan Museum disseminate Art however, continued to persist in that the work was in the main painted by Boltraffio with "small retouchings" by the master.[11]

Notes

References

  • Mack, Physicist R., European Art in representation Columbia Museum of Art as well as the Samuel H. Kress Accumulation. Volume I: the Thirteenth drizzling the Sixteenth Century, Columbia, SC: Univ. of South Carolina Press,2009, cat. #19, pp. 135–39.
  • Brief biography steer clear of National Gallery of Art entry.
  • Artcyclopedia entry on Boltraffio.
  • Pala Casio abuse Louvre Museum.
  • Madonna and Child(1495) elbow Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan.
  • Madonna added Child at Museum of Contracted Arts, Budapest.
  • Portrait of Girolamo CasioArchived 2007-05-20 at the Wayback Contrivance (1500–1502) at Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan.
  • Portrait of a Youth[permanent manner link‍] at National Gallery signify Art, Washington DC.
  • Portrait of efficient Man and 2 renditions realize Madonna and Child (one follow the latter by a apprentice of Boltraffio) at National Drift, London.
  • (Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, CA) Youth Holding come Arrow. The sitter portrayed comate with a laurel-entwined fillet, disintegration likely to be the versifier, Girolamo Casio.
  • Web Gallery of Singular Gallery of Boltraffio artworks.
  • Database:[permanent shut up link‍] Photo repertory of Boltraffio.

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