Bernardino Lanino
Italian, c. 1509-after 1581
Madonna and Child, a Warrior Saint (Michael?), and a Group of Worshippers
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Bernardino Lanino
Italian, c. 1509-after 15811565/70
Madonna and Child, a Warrior Saint (Michael?), and a Group of Worshippers
Bernardino Lanino Italian, c. 1509-after 1581 →drawings (visual works)paper
Date
1565/70
Medium
Brush with brown and black ink and brown wash, black chalk, heightened with white, on multiple sheets of pieced, blue laid paper (now discolored).
Dimensions
91 × 71 cm (35 7/8 × 28 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
This large-scale cartoon, a full-size preparatory model for an unidentified altarpiece, is made up of six sheets of paper pasted together. The group of young women on the right indicates that the final painting was probably intended for a female religious community. One figure was later transformed into a male through the addition of a beard.
Trained in northern Italy, Bernardino Lanino was exposed to the work of Leonardo and absorbed his signature effects of chiaroscuro, strong contrasts of light and dark, and sfumato, softened outlines and hazy forms.
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