Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio

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Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio

Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio or Beltraffio (1466 or 1467 – 1516) was an Italian

Italy

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painter of the High Renaissance

High Renaissance

The High Renaissance, in the history of art, denotes the culmination of the art of the Italian Renaissance between 1450 and 1527. Because Pope Julius II patronized many artists during this time, the movement was centered in Rome; it had previously been centered in Florence....
from Lombardy

Lombardy

Lombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region....
, who worked in the studio of Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italy polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, Painting, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer....
. Boltraffio and Bernardino Luini

Bernardino Luini

Bernardino Luini was a North Italian Painting from Leonardo da Vinci circle. Both Luini and Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio were said to have worked with Leonardo directly; he was described to have taken "as much from Leonardo as his native roots enabled him to comprehend"....
are the strongest artistic personalities to emerge from Leonardo's studio. According to Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio Vasari was an Italy Painting and architect, who is today famous for his biography of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation of art history writing....
, he was of an aristocratic family and was born in Milan

Milan

Milan is the second largest city of Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. It is the capital in the Province of Milan, as well as the Regions of Italy capital of Lombardy....
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His major painting of the 1490s is the Resurrection (painted with fellow da Vinci pupil Marco d'Oggiono

Marco d'Oggiono

Marco d'Oggiono was an Italy Renaissance painter and a chief pupil of Leonardo da Vinci, many of whose works he copied....
and now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin).

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Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio or Beltraffio (1466 or 1467 – 1516) was an Italian

Italy

High Renaissance

Lombardy

Leonardo da Vinci

Bernardino Luini

Giorgio Vasari

Milan

Marco d'Oggiono

Marco d'Oggiono was an Italy Renaissance painter and a chief pupil of Leonardo da Vinci, many of whose works he copied....
and now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin). A Leonardesque Madonna and Child in the Museo Poldi Pezzoli

Museo Poldi Pezzoli

The Museo Poldi Pezzoli is an art museum in Milan, Italy.The museum was originated in the 19th century as private collection of Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli and his mother, Rosa Trivulzio, of the family of the condottiero Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, and has a particularly broad collection of Northern Italian and Netherlandish/Flemish artists....
of Milan, is one of the high points of the Lombard Quattrocento

Quattrocento

The cultural and artistic events of 15th century Italy are collectively referred to as the Quattrocento . Quattrocento encompasses the artistic styles of the late Middle Ages and the early Renaissance....
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His portraits, often in profile, and his half-length renderings of the Madonna and Child are Leonardesque in conception, though the clean hard edges of his outlines lack Leonardo's sfumato
Sfumato

Sfumato is the Italian term for a painting technique which overlays translucent layers of colour to create perceptions of depth, volume and form....
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In Bologna

Bologna

Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, in the Po Valley , between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, exactly between the Reno River and the S?vena River....
, where he remained in 1500-1502, he found sympathetic patrons in the Casio family, of whom he painted several portraits and for whom he produced his masterwork, the Pala Casio for the Church of the Misericordia (Louvre Museum); it depicts a Madonna and Child with John the Baptist and Saint Sebastian and two Kneeling Donors, Giacomo Marchione de' Pandolfi da Casio and his son, the Bolognese poet Girolamo Casio, who mentioned Boltraffio in some of his sonnet

Sonnet

The sonnet is one of the Poetry that can be found in lyric poetry from Europe.The term "sonnet" derives from the Occitan word sonet and the Italian language word sonetto, both meaning "little song"....
s. Boltraffio's portrait of Girolamo Casio is at the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan.

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

Selected works with disputed attribution

Madonna Litta
Madonna Litta

The Madonna Litta is one of the great paintings by Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio after sketches by Leonardo da Vinci . There are numerous replicas of the work by other Renaissance painters, and Leonardo's own preliminary sketch of Madonna's head in the Louvre....
, (Saint Petersburg, Hermitage, sometimes attributed to Marco d´Oggiono).
Holy family, (National Gallery in Prague
National Gallery in Prague

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, probably a copy after the unknown original).
Virgin(:->) and child with donor, (Rome, Sant´Onofrio, Museo del Tasso, sometimes attributed to Cesare da Sesto
Cesare da Sesto

Cesare da Sesto was an Italy painter of the Renaissance active in Milan and elsewhere in Italy.He was born in Sesto Calende, Lombardy. He is considered one of the Leonardeschi or artists influenced by Leonardo da Vinci, such as Bernardino Luini and Marco D'Oggione....
).
, probably by Ambrogio de Predis.