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Bernardino Licinio (c. 1489 in Poscante – 1565) was an Italian High Renaissance painter of

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and Lombardy. He mainly painted portraits and religious canvases.

Life

Bernardino was the second son of ser Antonio Licino, part of a family from the municipality of Poscante in Bergamo. The first son was Arrigo or Rigo, the third (Zuane Battista) became a priest of the church of San Cassiano in Venice and the fourth (Niccolò) was also a parish priest of the church of San Biagio in Venice. From the information about his brothers, it can be deduced that Bernardino was born around 1489. In 1511 it appears he was already orphaned by his father and working as a painter. Bernardino and Arrigo soon settled in Venice, like many Bergamo artists of the time. p. 180. The date of his death is not known but there are no documents and notarial deeds mentioning him after 1550, which could be considered his death date. The work of Bernardino was properly attributed to him only in the early twentieth century, thanks to the clarification intervention of Gustav Ludwig in 1903. The misattribution was caused by

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, who in both editions of the ''Lives'', confused Bernardino Licinio with

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, effectively obscuring both the life and the works of Bernardino Licinio for more than three centuries.

Anthology of Works

*''Holy Family with the Magdalene'' *''Man with a Skull'' *''Stefano Nani'' *''Lady Portrait'' ( Beli Dvor, Belgrade) *''Ottaviano Grimani'' *''Madonna Enthroned with Saints'' (1535, Frari, Venice) *''Return of the Prodigal Son'',

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, Bucharest *''The Madonna and Child with Saint Joseph and a Female Martyr'', (1510–30, National Gallery, London) *''Portrait of Stefano Nani'', (1528, National Gallery, London) *''A Sculptor in his Studio with Five of his Pupils, One Holding an Armless Statue of Venus'', (

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, Northumberland) *''Madonna and Child with Saint Francis'',

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, Florence, *''Portrait of a Lady'', (

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, London) *''Portrait of lady with red dress'',

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*''Madonna with Child in Arms'',

Frari The Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, usually just called the Frari, is a church located in the Campo dei Frari at the heart of the San Polo district of Venice, Italy. The largest church in the city, it has the status of a minor basi ...

, Venicehttp://www.kfki.hu/~/arthp/html/l/licinio/index.html *''Franciscan Martyrs'',

, Venice,

References

External links

Painters of reality: the legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy
an exhibition catalogue from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Licinio (see index) 1480s births 1565 deaths 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 16th-century Italian painters Painters from Bergamo Renaissance painters {{Italy-painter-15thC-stub