Bernardino Luini

Bernardino Luini
Luini in a 1851 illustration
Bornc. 1480–1482
Runo, Dumenza
DiedJune 1532
NationalityItalian
MovementItalian Renaissance
Madonna del Roseto (Pinacoteca di Brera)
Adoration of the Magi, detached fresco, 1520–25 (Musée du Louvre)
Portrait of a Lady (1515; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)

Bernardino Luini (c. 1480/82 – June 1532) was a north Italian painter 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]

  1. ^ Freedberg, 1993, p. 390.
  2. ^ "Luinesque eyes... God, how I kissed them..." ("La Veneziana", 1924).