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Italian painter (1467?1516)
Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio
(or
Beltraffio
) (1466 or 1467
[1]
? 1516) was an Italian painter of the
High Renaissance
from
Lombardy
, who worked in the studio of
Leonardo da Vinci
.
[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 and was born in
Milan
.
Paintings
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His major painting of the 1490s is the
Resurrection
(painted with fellow da Vinci pupil
Marco d'Oggiono
and now in the Gemaldegalerie, Berlin). A
Madonna and Child
in the
Museo Poldi Pezzoli
of Milan, is one of the high points of the Lombard
Quattrocento
.
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
Bologna
, 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,
[3]
who mentioned Boltraffio in some of his
sonnets
. Boltraffio's portrait of Girolamo Casio is at the
Pinacoteca di Brera
, Milan. His
Portrait of a Man in Profile
is in the
National Gallery, London
.
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
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- Portrait of a Young Woman with a Scorpion Chain
,
Columbia Museum of Art
. Formerly assigned to the Louvre's Master of the
Vierge aux Balances
, the handsome
Portrait of a Young Woman with a Scorpion Chain
now in the Samuel H. Kress Collection of the Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, SC has been reattributed to the hand of Boltraffio and dated to the period 1490-1505. Whether or not Leonardo participated in its design remains uncertain.
[4]
- Madonna Litta
, (
Hermitage
,
Saint Petersburg
, sometimes attributed to
Leonardo da Vinci
).
- 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
).
- Portrait of a Man
, (
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
[5]
), probably by
Ambrogio de Predis
.
- Virgin and Child
is at the
National Gallery in London
.
[6]
- The
Salvator Mundi
from the workshop of Leonardo was attributed wholly to Boltraffio up to 2011 and some scholars continued to believe he contributed to it.
[7]
By 2017 however, the consensus in the art world was that it was a Leonardo da Vinci work,
[8]
[9]
although art historian Matthew Landrus maintained that the master contributed only about five to 20% of the painting with assistants such as Bernardino Luini producing the balance.
[10]
Carmen Bambach of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
however, continued to maintain that the work was mostly painted by Boltraffio with "small retouchings" by the master.
[11]
Notes
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References
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- Mack, Charles R.,
European Art in the Columbia Museum of Art including the Samuel H. Kress Collection. Volume I: the Thirteenth through the Sixteenth Century
, Columbia, SC: Univ. of South Carolina Press,2009, cat. #19, pp. 135?39.
- Brief biography
from National Gallery of Art entry.
- Artcyclopedia entry
on Boltraffio.
- Pala Casio
at
Louvre Museum
.
- Madonna and Child
(1495) at
Museo Poldi Pezzoli
, Milan.
- Madonna and Child
at
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
.
- Portrait of Girolamo Casio
Archived
2007-05-20 at the
Wayback Machine
(1500?1502) at
Pinacoteca di Brera
, Milan.
- Portrait of a Youth
[
permanent dead link
]
at
National Gallery of Art
,
Washington DC
.
- Portrait of a Man
and 2 renditions of
Madonna and Child
(one of the latter by a follower of Boltraffio) at
National Gallery, London
.
- (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
Gallery of Boltraffio artworks.
- Database:
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Photo repertory of Boltraffio.
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