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Bernardino Lanino Italian (1509-1513 - 1581) View objects by this artist.

b. about 1509 Vercelli, Italy, d. after 1581

After training locally with a little-known artist, Bernardino Lanino was associated with Vercelli's most important painter from 1530. Three years later he had already reached the rank of master painter. His early work displays his teacher's gentle figure style and delicate effects, but Lanino
added his own soft, misty brushstrokes. After his teacher left to establish himself in Milan, Lanino became the region's leading painter.
Between 1540 and 1560, Lanino made several visits to Milan, creating altarpieces and frescoes. There he absorbed the strong influence of Leonardo da Vinci's chiaroscuro. During this period Lanino made many of his finest drawings, creating startling chiaroscuro effects using black chalk and white bodycolor heightening on brown prepared paper. He often used pen and wash
with white highlights in his accomplished compositional studies.

Throughout the 1560s and 1570s, patrons eagerly sought Lanino's paintings, and his workshop was amazingly prolific. Examples of his soft style spread throughout the eastern Piedmont and Milan, and his sons also became painters in Vercelli.

Source: J Paul Getty Museum
http://www.getty.edu/museum/home.htm

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