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| Bernardino Luini Angel ca. 1520-21 fresco transferred to canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Bernardino Luini Nativity of the Virgin ca. 1520-21 fresco transferred to canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Bernardino Luini Vulcan's Forge ca. 1514 fresco transferred to panel Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Bernardino Luini Madonna and Child (Madonna of the Rose Bush) ca. 1500-1510 oil on panel Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
"With Milan at its center, present-day Lombardy includes Varese and Como to the northwest; while Pavia, Cremona, Brescia, Bergamo, and Mantua are its other major cities. In the sixteenth century, Mantua was an independent state ruled by the Gonzaga family, while Bergamo and Brescia were both part of Venice's western terraferma. The proximity of the latter two to Milan, however, is deeply significant for the development of their artistic schools, and their painters were frequently grouped with other Lombard artists."
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"Leonardo's impact on the local art scene – he worked in Milan from 1482 to 1499, and again from 1506 to 1513 – was incalculable, though not completely positive from the point of view of many modern-day critics, who attacked the leonardeschi as "macabre embalmers of busts in wax and skin." Indeed, their many works are marked by a somewhat frozen character. Nevertheless, several adherents were very talented, successfully grafting Leonardo's ideas onto more traditional modes and capturing the movement, unity and expressivity that were his – and Raphael's – contributions to sixteenth-century painting."
– from an essay by Andrea Bayer on the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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| Bernardino Luini The Scorn of Ham (Drunkenness of Noah) ca. 1510-1515 oil on panel Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Callisto Piazza Portrait of Captain Ludovico Vistarini ca. 1535-41 oil on panel Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Callisto Piazza Madonna and Child enthroned with St John the Baptist and St Jerome 1526 tempera on panel Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Callisto Piazza Baptism of Christ ca. 1540-45 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Giambattista Moroni Portrait of a Young Man ca. 1560 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Giambattista Moroni Portrait of Antonio Navagero 1565 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Giambattista Moroni Madonna and Child with St Catherine, St Francis and a Donor ca. 1540-50 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Giambattista Moroni Assumption of the Virgin 1570 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Sofonisba Anguissola Self-portrait 1560-61 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Sofonisba Anguissola Pietà ca. 1574-85 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |