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

Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) is a Periodization, period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries. It marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and was characterized by an effort to revive and sur ...

, active mainly around

Milan Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...

Biography

Born in

Treviglio Treviglio (; ) is a town and (i.e. municipality) in the province of Bergamo, in Lombardy, Northern Italy. It lies south of the province capital, in the lower territory called . It is also part of the geographic area named , included among the r ...

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

Vincenzo Foppa Vincenzo Foppa ( – ) was an Italian painter from the Renaissance period. While few of his works survive, he was an esteemed and influential painter during his time and is considered the preeminent leader of the Early Lombard School. He spent hi ...

, he was tutor of

Bramantino Bartolomeo Suardi ( – ) was an Italian painter and architect, mainly active in his native Milan. Biography He was born in Milan, the son of Alberto Suardi, but his biography remains unclear, and was long complicated by two "Pseudo-Bramantinos" ...

and collaborated with

Bernardo Zenale Bernardo (or Bernardino) Zenale (c. 1460 – 1526) was an Italian painter and architect. Biography Zenale was born in Treviglio, Lombardy, where in 1485 he finished the great polyptych for the church of St. Martin, together with his fellow Be ...

. Others claimed he trained with Vincenzo Civerchio, with whom he worked in Milan.M. Farquhar From 1491 to 1493 they executed the vault of the Grifi Chapel in San Pietro in Gessate in Milan. His 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.
1430s births 1500s deaths People from Treviglio 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 16th-century Italian painters Italian Renaissance painters Painters from Bergamo {{Italy-painter-15thC-stub