Bernardino Butinone (1435 or 1436 – c. 1507 or 1508) was an Italian painter of the

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, active mainly around

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. Born in

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, Lombardy, he was the son of Jacopo da Treviglio, and also known as ''Bernardo da Treviglio''. A pupil of

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, he was tutor of

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and collaborated with Bernardo Zenale. Others claimed he trained with

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, with whom he worked in Milan.M. Farquhar From 1491 to 1493 they executed the vault of the Grifi Chapel in

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in Milan. Their masterwork is the polyptych of San Martino in

, which was commissioned in 1485. Butinone's most appealing works are a series of small panels he painted depicting the life of Christ, which are now dispersed in various collections. These include the ''Adoration of the Shepherds'' (National Gallery, London), ''Adoration of the Magi'' (Brooklyn Museum of Art), ''Massacre of the Innocents'' (Detroit Institute of Arts), ''Flight into Egypt'' and ''Deposition'' (Art Institute of Chicago), '' Christ among the Doctors'' (National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh), and ''Supper at Bethany'' (Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin). He also frescoed the pilasters of Santa Maria delle Grazie of Milan.

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Web Gallery of Art biography.
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