Bernardino Luini

Bernardino Luini (* 1480 in Runo, community Dumenza near the eastern shore of Lake Maggiore, † 1532 in Milan ) was an Italian painter.

Luini worked in Lombardy as a painter from around 1510 and was strongly influenced by the Lombard school, the work of Raphael, by Melozzo da Forlì and Leonardo da Vinci. He has amazing inventions picked up and made ​​into your own pictures. So based his Salome with the Head of John the Baptist ( Uffizi) on Leonardo's La Scapigliata (Parma) and his Holy Family with the young St. John ( Prado ) gives us a pretty clear idea of ​​Leonardo's original drawing of lost of each other kissing children.

The earliest known, but controversial work is Luini's " Madonna with Child and Two Saints " of 1507, which is now on display at the Musée Jacquemart -André in Paris.

Luini was employed in later years mainly as a fresco painter. His lovely Madonna paintings have Luini the reputation of superficiality, but correspond mainly to the preferences of the period in which the kitsch was as such discovered.