Madonna and Child (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest)

Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio or Beltraffio (Milan 1466/67^[1] — Milan, 1516) was a Lombard painter of the High Renaissance who worked in the studio of Leonardo.^[2] Boltraffio and Bernardino Luini are the strongest artistic personalities to emerge from Leonardo's studio. According to Giorgio Vasari, he was of an aristocratic family. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1000x1364, 91 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1000x1364, 91 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio ... Milan (Italian: ; Lombard: Milán (listen)) is the main city of northern Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. ... Lombardy (Italian: Lombardia, Lombard: Lumbardia) is one of the 20 Regions of Italy. ... The Creation of Adam, Michelangelos fresco from the . ... Leonardo da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian Renaissance architect, musician, anatomist, inventor, engineer, sculptor, geometer, and painter. ... Bernardino Luini (1482-1532) was an Italian painter. ... Giorgio Vasaris selfportrait Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Giorgio Vasari Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo, Tuscany July 3, 1511 - Florence, June 27, 1574) was an Italian painter and architect, mainly known for his famous biographies of Italian artists. ...

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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. In Jörg Breu the Youngers painting, the Madonna and Child fix the spectator with a gaze that invites the pious to contemplation and prayer The Madonna and Child is one of the central icons of Christianity. ... Detail of the face of Mona Lisa showing the use of sfumato, particularly in the shading around the eyes. ...

In Bologna, 1500-02, 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 is 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 (1464 - 1533), who mentioned Boltraffio in some of his sonnets.^[3] Bologna (IPA , from Latin Bononia, Bulåggna in the local dialect) is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, in the Pianura Padana, between the Po River and the Apennines, exactly between the Reno River and the Sàvena River. ... Francesco Petrarca or Petrarch, one of the best-known of the early Italian sonnet writers For the Saab automobile, see Saab Sonett, for the Japanese communications company see So-net. ...

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

Notes

1. ^ According to his tombstone he was 49 at his death in 1516.
2. ^ Leonardo records a "Gian Antonio" in his studio in 1491.
3. ^ A portrait of Girolamo Casio is at the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan.

The Pinacoteca Brera (Brera Art Gallery) in Milan contains one of the foremost collections of Italian paintings, an outgrowth of the cultural program of the Accademia di Belli Arte (Academy of Fine Arts or Accademia Brera), which shares the site in the Palazzo Brera. ...

Selected works with disputed attribution

• Madonna Litta, (Saint Petersburg, Hermitage, sometimes attributed to Marco d´Oggiono).
• Holy family, (National Gallery in Prague, probably a copy after the unknown original).
• Virgin and child with donor, (Rome, Sant´Onofrio, Museo del Tasso, sometimes attributed to Cesare da Sesto).
• (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco) Portrait of a Man, probably by Ambrogio de Predis.

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References

• (National Gallery of Art, Washington DC: Brief biography.
• Boltraffio on the Web
• (Louvre Museum) The Pala Casio
• (Museo Poldi-Pezzoli, Milan) Madonna and Child 1495.
• (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest) Madonna and Child
• (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan) Portrait of Girolamo Casio 1500-02
• (National Gallery of Art, Washington DC) Portrait of a Youth
• (National Gallery, London) Portrait of a Man and two renditions of the Madonna and Child, one by a follower of Boltraffio
• (Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, CA) Youth Holding an Arrow. The sitter portrayed crowned with a laurel-entwined fillet, is likely to be the poet, Girolamo Casio.
• Web Gallery of Art Photo repertory of Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio.
• Database: Photo repertory of Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio.