Bernardino Luini (c....
They were lowly, but their fame inherits the earth.Bernardino Luini
Italian painter (c. 1480/82–1532)
Bernardino Luini (c. 1480/82 – June 1532) was a north Italianpainter 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".[1] 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.[2]
Biography
Luini was born as Bernardino de Scapis in Runo, a frazione of Dumenza, near Lake Maggiore.
Bernardino Luini was a Renaissance painter of Lombardy, best known for his mythological and religious frescoes.
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 Medi